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has someone's number

has someone's number is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

  1. (idiomatic) 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
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, someone's, number.

Questions about has someone's number

What is has someone's number the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Has someone's number is the third-person singular simple present indicative of have someone's number.

Words near has someone's number in the dictionary

  1. has someone's ear
  2. has someone's guts for garters
  3. has someone's head
  4. has someone's hide
  5. has someone's nose wide open
  6. has someone's number
  7. has someone's six
  8. has something going for one
  9. has something going with someone
  10. has something on good authority
  11. has something over someone

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