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know what you are doing

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know what you are doing
to have the necessary knowledge or experience to do something. Mountain climbing is a dangerous sport, so I hope he knows what he's doing.
See also: doing, know

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Let me go,' said the girl with great earnestness; then sitting herself down on the floor, before the door, she said, 'Bill, let me go; you don't know what you are doing.
Dear marquise, how unjust you are, and how little do you know what you are doing in thus exclaiming against mystery; it is with mystery alone we can love without trouble; it is with love without trouble alone that we can be happy.
The constable told him, a little moved, but very handsomely, 'I know my duty, and what I am, sir; I doubt you hardly know what you are doing.
 
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