thing or two

1. Quite a lot, as in You can count on Bob to tell you a thing or two about Iran. This term is nearly always an understatement. [Mid-1800s] Also see under know all the answers.

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Figuring I might be able to learn a thing or two from an industry legend, I worked as a line cook at Finnbar for about a year and a half, until I could open my own kitchen this summer.

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“Frankly, I’m stumped. If only there was a job opening for a household navigator! That would work. Or I’d settle for being the Ashton astronomer. I know a thing or two about the constellations. I’d call myself Starry Sam, the Milky Way Man, or something of that ilk. . . .”

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They would run a bookstore, give painting lessons, and assume Madame Ionesco’s bakehouse duties when she was off prognosticating, for they had surely learned a thing or two about baking while in Frankenforde.

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“I learned a thing or two about bluffing, believe you me. Edward Ashton’s got a full house, perhaps—we’ll call it a house full of Ashtons! But you’ve got four of a kind.”

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Barrett knows a thing or two about immersion.

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