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drill
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drill something into someone
to have something repeated very frequently. You learn vocabulary by having it drilled into you.
Related vocabulary: hammer home something

know the drill

to know what needs to be done or what usually happens in a situation. You know the drill — cut the grass, bag the clippings, and leave them at the curb.
See also: know
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Oil drillers often heat crude oil or dilute it with gasoline to make it runny enough to flow through pipelines to refineries.
Electromagnetism could ease the flow in oil pipelines by Science News
oil and gas driller, plans to sell its deepwater drilling facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and off southern Argentina.
Under water by Latin Trade
Some drillers hoping for diamonds have gotten into trouble, since about 80 per cent of forest rings contain pockets of natural gas.
Spooky phenomenon may mark energy deposits by Ross, Ian / Northern Ontario Business
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