know backwards

(Redirected from know something backwards)

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Suggesting such familiarity with something that one could recite or list it even in reverse order.

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know backwards (third-person singular simple present knows backwards, present participle knowing backwards, simple past knew backwards, past participle known backwards)

  1. (UK, transitive) To have very thorough knowledge of.

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