know the rope in a sentence

Examples

1. By 13, you know the ropes.
2. Although most night exercisers are serious regulars who know the ropes, a gym trainer is around for consultation.
3. I am a little scared to do anything on these pages since I don't know the ropes yet.
4. Yamanaka, on the other hand, knows the ropes, working the Asian American students at Cal with wise-cracking charm.
5. And today I want my food and beverage department to be a bit different, because I know the ropes.
6. And besides, as West said, " A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up ."
7. Being my first year, I really didn't know the ropes, so I leaned heavily on our personnel people here.
8. They'd be telling him to leave us right here where we know the ropes and have catastrophe at bay.
9. This particular macaque already knows the ropes, but newbies need coaching to develop an interactive relationship with the computer.
10. That makes sense, but others ( who know the ropes around here ) will have to argue that case.