ins and outs

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the ins and outs (informal)

the details or facts about something. I don't know all the ins and outs of the situation but I gather Roger and Mark haven't been getting on too well. (usually + of)

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He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context It takes a big raskil to beat him; but there's bigger to be found, as know more o' th' ins and outs o' the law, else how came Wakem to lose Brumley's suit for him? The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context Also, within an hour or so, he was able to bring to us a Greek boy of seventeen or eighteen who knew thoroughly well the ins and outs of oyster piracy. Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context More results

References in classic literature

He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

It takes a big raskil to beat him; but there's bigger to be found, as know more o' th' ins and outs o' the law, else how came Wakem to lose Brumley's suit for him?

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

Also, within an hour or so, he was able to bring to us a Greek boy of seventeen or eighteen who knew thoroughly well the ins and outs of oyster piracy.

Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context

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