"know one’s onions" meaning in All languages combined

See know one’s onions on Wiktionary

Verb [Anglais]

IPA: \ˈnəʊ wʌn‿z ˈʌn.jənz\ Audio: En-au-know one's onions.ogg
  1. S’y connaître. Tags: figuratively, informal
    Sense id: fr-know_one’s_onions-en-verb-P3CT974j Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais, Termes informels en anglais, Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: know one’s stuff

Download JSONL data for know one’s onions meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Dates manquantes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions verbales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    " ",
    "(Date à préciser) Du verbe to know (« connaître », « savoir »), de one’s (« ses (propres) ») et du nom onion (« oignon ») au pluriel, ce qui donne littéralement « connaître ses oignons »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Métaphores en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Termes informels en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "S’y connaître."
      ],
      "id": "fr-know_one’s_onions-en-verb-P3CT974j",
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈnəʊ wʌn‿z ˈʌn.jənz\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-know one's onions.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7f/En-au-know_one's_onions.ogg/En-au-know_one's_onions.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-know one's onions.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Australie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "know one’s stuff"
    }
  ],
  "word": "know one’s onions"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Dates manquantes en anglais",
    "Locutions verbales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    " ",
    "(Date à préciser) Du verbe to know (« connaître », « savoir »), de one’s (« ses (propres) ») et du nom onion (« oignon ») au pluriel, ce qui donne littéralement « connaître ses oignons »."
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Locution verbale",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Métaphores en anglais",
        "Termes informels en anglais",
        "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "S’y connaître."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈnəʊ wʌn‿z ˈʌn.jənz\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-know one's onions.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7f/En-au-know_one's_onions.ogg/En-au-know_one's_onions.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-know one's onions.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Australie"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "know one’s stuff"
    }
  ],
  "word": "know one’s onions"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-08-05 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-01 using wiktextract (ec0369a and 6aeea9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.