Subj : "thing out" verb
To   : All
From : alexander koryagin
Date : Fri Jul 06 2018 22:01:02

From: alexander koryagin <koryagin@erec.ru>

Hi, all!

In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" I read:

-----Beginning of the citation-----
    "Here," he said. "We go on through here. The entrance is concealed."
    Harry did not ask how Dumbledore knew. He had never seen a wizard
work things out like this, simply by looking and touching; but Harry had
long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of
ineptitude than expertise.
-----The end of the citation-----

It seems that "things out" is a verb and it has the similar meaning to 
"looks".

But where on Earth Rowling has found such a verb "to thing out"? ;)

Bye, all!
Alexander Koryagin

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