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
Ihor	EE-hawr	Ukrainian
P&Aelig;Ga	-	Anglo-Saxon
Parvana	-	Azerbaijani, Persian
Prabhakara	-	Hinduism
Zita (2)	-	Hungarian
Cirino	chee-REE-no (Italian), thee-REE-no (Spanish), see-REE-no (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish