英语词汇have someone-s number的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	have someone-s number
词源	have someone’s number. To know someone’s weaknesses, to have great insight into someone’s thoughts and actions. There seems to be no widely accepted explanation of the word number in the phrase, the telephone having been invented long after the expression’s first recorded use in 1853.
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