know what's what
Example Sentences
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Could be days before we know what’s what.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
From the otuside, it’s hard to know what’s what, but I’d be surprised if, with survival in the balance, they’d tell the manager not to pick someone to avoid having to pay a few quid.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2022
And then how you experience it is you experience it, through symbolism and metaphor, because a lot of the world when you're a kid you don't really know what's what.
From Salon ● May 26, 2020
"Future researchers writing the history of Cambodia will not know what's what."
From Fox News ● Nov. 17, 2018
The Preacher said, “If it was me, I’d circle around and come from the south. You all go look north. I’m not expecting any trouble. These are my woods, I know what’s what out here.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
