v.
be well-informed

know what Idiom, Proverb

know what's what

Idiom(s): know the score AND know what's what

Theme: KNOWLEDGE

to know the facts; to know the facts about life and its difficulties. (Informal.)
• Bob is so naive. He sure doesn't know the score.
• I know what you re trying to do. Oh, yes, I know what's what.

Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doin

If the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, then communication within a company, organisation, group, etc, is so bad that people don't know what the others are doing.

let one's left hand know what one's right hand is

v. phr. 1. To make a show of your kindness or help to others.

Used in the negative. The Bible tells us not to let the left hand know what the right hand is doing when we give to the poor. 2. informal To let everyone taking part in something know what each is doing; encourage cooperation in working. Tom told Fred and Bill to meet him in town, but he forgot to tell them where. Next time he'll let his left hand know what his right hand is doing.

Often used in the negative. Our team lost today because the coach and captain did not let the left hand know what the right was doing, and the players were all mixed up.

not to know what to make of|know|what to make|what

v. phr. To be unable to decipher; be unable to identify; not know how to decide what something really is. I got a mysterious letter asking me to meet Santa Claus at 6 P.M. at the supermarket. Is this a joke? I don't know what to make of it.

know what

informal A abridgement of "you apperceive what."1. Acclimated to acquaint some allotment of advice one believes the added being does not know. Hey, apperceive what? If you eat all your vegetables, you can accept a credibility afterwards dinner! A: "Psst, Tom! Apperceive what?" B: "What?" A: "Sarah has a drove on you!" B: "Huh? Really?"2. A byword acclimated to back a abrupt accommodation or realization. A: "Want to appear to a affair with us?" B: "Well, I was activity to abstraction tonight… Hey, apperceive what? Yes, I will appear with you. I charge a break."3. A articulate catechism airish afore a account one considers to be the edgeless truth, generally during an altercation or acrimonious exchange. A: "I'm apologetic Janet, it's not you, it's me." B: "Know what, John? You're right—you are the problem!"Learn more: know, what

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English Vocalbulary

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