know the drill
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]know the drill (third-person singular simple present knows the drill, present participle knowing the drill, simple past knew the drill, past participle known the drill)
- (idiomatic, informal) To be acquainted with the normal process or procedure of a given activity or situation; to be familiar with how something is done.
- 2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian[1]:
- By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.
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[edit]- “know the drill”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.