know like the back of one's hand
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know like the back of one's hand (third-person singular simple present knows like the back of one's hand, present participle knowing like the back of one's hand, simple past knew like the back of one's hand, past participle known like the back of one's hand)
- (transitive, simile) To be intimately knowledgeable about something.
- He knows the software like the back of his hand, and can often solve problems over the phone, without looking.
- 2024 April 27, Tim Bano, quoting Sanaz Toossi, “It's a play born of rage”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
- “I know American audiences like the back of my hand,” she says, sitting in a dressing room in London at the end of a long day of rehearsals; […]
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be intimately knowledgeable about
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