know a thing or two

know a thing or two
know a thing or two
To be knowledgeable about something. The phrase is usually used to indicate that one knows more about something than someone thinks.
Hey, I know a thing or two about art—I was an art history major in college, you know!
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know a thing or two
(about someone or something) Go to a thing or two (about someone or something).
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
know a thing or two be experienced or shrewd.
1993 Rolling Stone Andy Shernoff …knows a thing or two about great glam punk.
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know a thing or two (about somebody/something) (informal) know a lot about somebody/something from your own experience: After ten years as a teacher, I know a thing or two about how children learn. ; ‘How much do you know about computers?’ ‘Oh, I know a thing or two.’
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a whole different beast
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