have someone's numberとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, chapter 57, in Bleak House:

     "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 from being held accountable, and that you have got that person’s number, and it’s Number One."

   • 1922, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 10, in Flowing Gold:

     "Say! He's the hardest guy I ever saw," Stoner declared, admiringly. Mallow spoke last, but he spoke with conviction. "You said it, Brick. I had his number from the start. He's a master crook, and—it'll pay us all to string with him."

   • 1994, Marilyn Stasio, "Crime" (review of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich), New York Times, 4 Sept. (retrieved 20 Nov. 2009):

     Morelli has her number: "Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell."

   • 2008 August 28, “Tennis: Murray edges to win over Llodra”, in BBC.com, retrieved 20 Nov. 2009:

     Llodra, a doubles specialist who is ranked 38 in singles, was charging to the net at every opportunity and played some brilliant shots but Murray seemed to have his number at that stage.

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

参考

• figure out
• have someone figured out