get someone's number
get someone's number is the alternative form of have someone's number.
Meaning of have someone's number
Verb
have someone's number (third-person singular simple present has someone's number, present participle having someone's number, simple past and past participle had someone's number)
- To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation.
- "Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as can be in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you ‘In worldly matters I’m a child,’ you consider that that person is only a crying off...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 57, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, someone's, number.
Forms of get someone's number
| third-person singular present | gets someone's number |
|---|---|
| present participle | getting someone's number |
| past | got someone's number |
| past participle UK | got someone's number |
| past participle US | gotten someone's number |
Questions about get someone's number
- What is get someone's number the alternative form of?
- Get someone's number is the alternative form of have someone's number.
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