ropes
nomverbecourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɹəʊps//
- États-Unis//ɹoʊps//
Basic skills of a job.
nom
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Basic skills of a job.
show the ropes, learn the ropes
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Aussi une forme de ropeplural of rope
Étymologie
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.
verbe
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Aussi une forme de ropethird-person singular simple present indicative of rope