string to one's bow

Meaning: (idiomatic)Askill,abilityorresource.1932, Western Australia. Parliament,Parliamentary Debates:McGough has not astring to his bow. He had no friends behind him; that was the trouble.2013, Michelle Flatt,Wish It Wasn't M.E.: Living With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Xlibris Corporation,→ISBN, page122:I feel doing the course would provide me with anotherstring to my bow, and hopefully alongside the jewellery and card making, I would be able to be a freelance therapist and make the workload and times workable for me.2014,Bear Grylls,Extreme Food - What to eat when your life depends on it..., Random House,→ISBN, page65:Knowing how to identify certain edible mushrooms is not only a pleasure, it's also a greatstring to your bowwhen it comes to wild food survival.; (idiomatic)Alover,paramourorsuitor, especially one of many.1837,Honoré de Balzac,Massimilla Doni, Delphi Classics,→ISBN:Massimilla was no coquette. She had no secondstring to her bow, no secondo, no terzo, no patito.2014, Barbara Kendall-Davies,Life and Work of Pauline Viardot Garcia, vol. I: The Years of Fame 1836-1863 Second Edition, Cambridge Scholars Publishing,→ISBN, page152:Grisi now had anotherstring to her bowin the form of the tenor, Mario, who was fast becoming putty in her hands.2014, Calvin Henderson Wiley,Alamance - The Great And Final Experiment, Jazzybee Verlag,→ISBN:Miss Artemesia, believing that she had threestrings to her bow, and having mentally arranged her suitors into a sort of sliding scale, at the top of which was the judge, and at the bottom Phil Blister, was not in a hurry to make up her mind in regard to the latter's proposals.

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