Usually means: Understand how to perform tasks.
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  1. know the ropes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. know the ropes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. know the ropes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. know the ropes: Dictionary.com
  5. Know the ropes: World Wide Words
  6. Know the ropes: Phrase Finder
  7. know the ropes: Wiktionary

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  1. know the ropes: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (know the ropes)

verb:  To have experience of the appropriate procedures; know how a particular task or job should be done (with reference to ropes used in sailing).

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