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inside out
Extremely well, thoroughly, especially alluding to knowing something. For example, He knows this system inside out . [First half of 1900s]
With the inner surface turned out or revealed, as in He wore his shirt inside out . This expression dates from about 1600 and was soon used figuratively, as in He turned the verses inside out and revealed their hidden sense .
Example Sentences
I think you know me inside out by now and I really appreciate that.
“Trump and Musk and the GOP are … trying to make it fail from the inside out,” said Mills-Senn.
Read said Peebles "knew his music & cricket inside out. Raise your bat & enjoy a long rest in the pavilion".
But Johnson has bent the novel inside out and turned it into, of all things, a romance.
"We know one another inside out," he says.
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