Knack
To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
To speak affectedly.
A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.
Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.
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Knack Quotations
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert Camus
I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
Andy Rooney
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
Temple Grandin
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
I have the knack of easing scruples.
Moliere
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
Knack Translations
knack in German is Kniff
knack in Swedish is knep, vana
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