ropes

*ropes

Fig. knowledge of how to do something; how to work something. (*Typically: know ~; learn ~; show someone ~; teach someone ~.) I'll be able to do my job very well when I know the ropes. John is very slow to learn the ropes.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Boyka	-	Bulgarian
Ad	AHT	Dutch, Limburgish
Jeong	jung	Korean
Dempsey	['dempsi:]
Erminlinda	-	Ancient Germanic
Lucas	LOO-kəs (English), LUY-kahs (Dutch), luy-KAH (French), LOO-kəsh (Portuguese), LOO-kahs (Spanish)	English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Biblical Latin