learn the ropes

She interned on the set of his next movie, and spent the next two years doing other internships to learn the ropes.

The whole process, then, went completely off-track after McCarthy was ousted as speaker and the newly installed speaker, Mike Johnson, had to learn the ropes.

I was confident I could learn the ropes, I was excited about my soon-to-be colleagues, and I was motivated by the challenge of covering the news in a creative way, but that didn’t stop the requisite butterflies from flooding my stomach.

My doctor suggested that I get a trainer at my cheap gym, just to learn the ropes, or try Apple Fitness+.

Despite his very brief time in politics, he has not taken the opportunity to keep his head down and learn the ropes in the first couple of years, as most novice senators do.