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⇒ have been around |
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хорошо знать своё дело (These guys are just top quality people and players, and then you look and see all the experienced guys who have been around the block. 4uzhoj) |
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быть сексуально опытным (His girlfriend looks like she's been around the block a bit.) |
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хорошо разбираться (в Andrey Truhachev); кое-что повидать в жизни (4uzhoj); иметь большой опыт (особ. в чём-либо плохом joyand); нюхнуть пороху (кроме значения "участвовать в боях": When you've been around the block as many times as I have, not much shocks you any more. 4uzhoj); съесть собаку (Maggie); быть уже не новичком (в каком-то деле: Owner Josh Beeby has been around the block a few times with his other two über-popular establishments downtown, Trappe Door and Barley's Taproom.  greenvilleonline.com 4uzhoj); иметь опыт (в каком-либо деле или вопросе: If your not sure how to run this business, ask Old Man Dave. He's been around the block a few times.); быть докой (Andrey Truhachev); быть знатоком (в Andrey Truhachev); быть знакомым не понаслышке (с чем-либо VLZ_58) |
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be sexually experienced (His girlfriend looks like she's been around the block a bit.) |
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to have a lot of experience of something, especially when this means that it is difficult to trick or surprise you (When you’ve been around the block as many times as I have, not much shocks you any more. macmillandictionary.com); to have experience, either in a particular area or in one's life overall (Yes, the new hire is young, but she's been around the block. She was managing a whole department at a prominent PR firm before she came here. • Your aunt might seem boring these days, but she's been around the block—she went to Woodstock as a teenager! thefreedictionary.com); have a lot of experience (She’s been around the block a few times and can’t be fooled that easily. thefreedictionary.com); know what one is doing (If someone is described as having been around the block, it means he is experienced, that he has been in a similar situation before, that he has worked on a similar task before, that he has skills acquired in previous similar circumstances grammarist.com) |
