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View definitions for get the knack of

get the knack of

verb as in learn the ropes

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I said: ‘Fair enough. At least I can be guaranteed to get 150,000 people at the drop of a hat – I did get the knack of that!’

That might help you get the knack of what she likes.

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In other words, Deb wasn’t ready to be a mother when she became one, and she’s still struggling to get the knack of it now.

After ten minutes I get the knack of tossing the pan so that the pancakes which are done on one side sail up, turn in the air and are caught again as they come down.

Hood slips into her Italian-American mother’s kitchen, though she never quite manages to get the knack of rolling out meatballs like Mom does.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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