HAVE YOU GOT ANY SENSE?

Sense
The ability to understand or judge something. Some very common expressions are:

• A sense of humour (= the ability to find things funny or make people laugh)
• A (good) sense of direction (= the ability to find the way to a place easily)
• A sense of rhythm (= the ability to move in time to a fixed beat)
• A sense of timing (= the skill of doing something at exactly the right time)
• Dress sense (= to know which clothes look attractive)
• Road sense (= the ability to drive or walk carefully and safely through traffic)
• Common sense (= the ability to make good judgments and behave in a practical and sensible way)