Brewer's: Numero

Homme de numero—that is “un homme fin en affaires.” M. Walckenaer says it is a shop phrase, meaning that he knows all the numbers of the different goods, or all the private marks indicative of price and quality.

Il n'etoit lors, de Paris jusqu a Rome, Galant qui sut si bien le namero.

La Fontaine: Richard Minutoto.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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