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Know what's going on   /noʊ wəts gˈoʊɪŋ ɑn/   Listen
Know what's going on

verb
1.
Be well-informed.  Synonyms: be on the ball, be with it, know the score, know what's what.






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"Know what's going on" Quotes from Famous Books



... and—why, of course, I was honest. How could I help bein' honest up there? What's eatin' the darn fools? The only thing you can steal up there is a nap, and you got to be mighty slick if you want to do that, they watch you so close. But do you know what's going on in this country right now, Mr. Popple? There's a regular organized band of law-breakers operating from one end of the nation to the other. We're tryin' to bust it up, but it's a tough job. The best way to reform ...
— Yollop • George Barr McCutcheon

... Bonnie Lassie severely. "Poor old Dominie! He doesn't know what's going on under his very nose. ...
— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... narrowed eyes. "Lieutenant, do you actually mean that you really don't know what's going on here, or are you ...
— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... closed yesterday. They say as he has been taken suddenly ill, but feyther thinks that perhaps he was wounded. Of course men don't speak much before feyther, and I don't talk much to the other women of the village, so we don't know what's going on; anyhow the doctor has not been here to see him, and if he had been only ill I should think they would have had Dr. Green up. Old Sarah James is nursing him. I saw her this morning going to the shop and asked her how he was; she only said ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty



Words linked to "Know what's going on" :   know the score, be with it, know what's what, know



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