have a way with

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be good at dealing with sb / sth

   You gonna tell me I don't have a way with women? Ha-ha-ha.

   Ye have a way with words, Tommy.

In the movies · 5

• Ye have a way with words, Tommy.The Lighthouse2019
• You gonna tell me I don't have a way with women? Ha-ha-ha.Once Upon a Time in America1984
• ...he, too, had a way with women.The Godfather Part III1990
• You have a way with people.Patch Adams1998
• You really have a way with words, you know?Klaus2019
• You really do have a way with words.Wonka2023
• Oh, you have such a way with children.A Goofy Movie1995
• They have no way outFast X2023

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way

More idioms

• put in a word for
• take breath away
• with your eyes shut
• at best
• in short
• keep your distance
• see fit
• as it happens
• a matter of life and death
• it's a free country
• come and go
• to bits