KNOW WHAT IS WHAT meaning: Understand the true nature clearly - OneLook

Might mean (unverified): Understand the true nature clearly.

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▸ verb: (idiomatic) To understand the current situation; to know what is going on.

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know what one is about, know the score, know where one stands, look around, know what one is doing, be on to, get the picture, have a clue, know, have one's finger on the pulse, more...

Opposite:

confused, ignorant, unaware, uncertain, clueless

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Similar:

know what one is about, know the score, know where one stands, look around, know what one is doing, be on to, get the picture, have a clue, know, have one's finger on the pulse, more...

Opposite:

confused, ignorant, unaware, uncertain, clueless

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