Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of rope
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryplural of rope · Basic skills of a job.
In the sense of skills, a now figurative use that originally referred to literal ropes. The phrase “he knows the ropes” written on a seaman’s discharge meant that he was inexperienced and only familiar with a ship’s principal ropes.
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