Sentence examples for know the ropes from inspiring English sources

They know the ropes.

He also served time as a radio-ad announcer long enough to know the ropes.

Then identify colleagues who know the ropes and start asking questions.

"Rumsfeld, Powell, Paul O'Neill, these are people who know the ropes," Mr. Cheney said.

Returning to Cambridge as a sophomore, Owen found the squeeze slightly lessened; he was beginning to know the ropes.

"I didn't know better what was going on, I didn't know the ropes of how anything worked," Logan said.

He knew the ropes".

He knows the ropes".

The penultimate green thumb who knew the ropes.

Ms. Barnes knew the ropes and explained them to the Anchels.

Others, who knew the ropes, sat confidently at tables.