Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is learn the ropes and its meaning is “to learn or develop the basic skills (or qualities) to do a particular job/task and to acquire expertise in it”.
Example Sentence: Hockey legend Balbir Singh had already made a lasting impression on someone learning the ropes years earlier, during his several visits to Delhi, his aura felt every time he smiled and enquired, “How are you, beta ?”
This phrase is present in The Hindu Sports Page article Remembering a gentle and formidable giant and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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