"have a way with" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has a way with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a way with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a way with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a way with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> a way with"
      },
      "expansion": "have a way with (third-person singular simple present has a way with, present participle having a way with, simple past and past participle had a way with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She has a way with animals, and they seem instinctively to trust her.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to have a way with words",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire), Book Five, Random House Publishing Group, page 303",
          "text": "[…] The slinger can put a stone through a gnat's eye at forty paces, and the ugly one has a way with horses, but if my queen says that they must die. . .”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something)."
      ],
      "id": "en-have_a_way_with-en-verb-hBNTCHTk",
      "links": [
        [
          "skilled",
          "skilled"
        ],
        [
          "adept",
          "adept"
        ],
        [
          "graceful",
          "graceful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something)."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "have one's way with"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "be skilled",
          "word": "對…… 頗有一手"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "duì... pō yǒuyīshǒu",
          "sense": "be skilled",
          "word": "对…… 颇有一手"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be skilled",
          "word": "olla taitava jossakin"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "be skilled",
          "word": "savoir y faire"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "be skilled",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "być za pan brat"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a way with"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has a way with",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having a way with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a way with",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had a way with",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> a way with"
      },
      "expansion": "have a way with (third-person singular simple present has a way with, present participle having a way with, simple past and past participle had a way with)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "have one's way with"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She has a way with animals, and they seem instinctively to trust her.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "to have a way with words",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire), Book Five, Random House Publishing Group, page 303",
          "text": "[…] The slinger can put a stone through a gnat's eye at forty paces, and the ugly one has a way with horses, but if my queen says that they must die. . .”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "skilled",
          "skilled"
        ],
        [
          "adept",
          "adept"
        ],
        [
          "graceful",
          "graceful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, informal) To be skilled, adept, or graceful with or at (something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/En-au-have_a_way_with.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "be skilled",
      "word": "對…… 頗有一手"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "duì... pō yǒuyīshǒu",
      "sense": "be skilled",
      "word": "对…… 颇有一手"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be skilled",
      "word": "olla taitava jossakin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "be skilled",
      "word": "savoir y faire"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "be skilled",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "być za pan brat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have a way with"
}