"have someone's number" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "have<has,,had> someone's number"
      },
      "expansion": "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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 10, in Flowing Gold",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Marilyn Stasio, \"Crime\" (review of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich), New York Times, 4 Sept. (retrieved 20 Nov. 2009)",
          "text": "Morelli has her number: \"Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 28, “Tennis: Murray edges to win over Llodra”, in BBC.com, retrieved 2009-11-20",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "capabilities",
          "capability"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, someone's, number."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "have",
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        ],
        [
          "someone's",
          "someone's#English"
        ],
        [
          "number",
          "number#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "figure out"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "have someone figured out"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "get someone's number"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
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  "word": "have someone's number"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "has someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "having someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "had someone's number",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "have<has,,had> someone's number"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "figure out"
    },
    {
      "word": "have someone figured out"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1922, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 10, in Flowing Gold",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Marilyn Stasio, \"Crime\" (review of One for the Money by Janet Evanovich), New York Times, 4 Sept. (retrieved 20 Nov. 2009)",
          "text": "Morelli has her number: \"Lots of energy, not much control, sexy as hell.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 August 28, “Tennis: Murray edges to win over Llodra”, in BBC.com, retrieved 2009-11-20",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "capabilities",
          "capability"
        ],
        [
          "situation",
          "situation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To understand a person's character, capabilities, or situation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, someone's, number."
      ],
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          "someone's",
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        ],
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          "number",
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        ]
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "get someone's number"
    }
  ],
  "word": "have someone's number"
}