| 词汇 | have/get the measure of somebody |
| 释义 | have/get the measure of somebodyhave/get the measure of somebody British EnglishBrEJUDGE to know what someone’s strengths and weaknesses are, so that you are able to deal with them or defeat them 摸清某人的底细，掂出某人的分量〔以便对付或将其打败〕 She soon got the measure of her opponent. 她很快就掂出了对手的分量。 Examples from the Corpus have/get the measure of somebody• He may have the measure of the John Gosden-trained Anshan, running from stall 15.• Booth and Rowntree were more concerned with getting the measure of poverty than with trying to devise a general theory about it. → have/get the measure of somebody at measure2(11) |
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