Usually means: Understanding the essence of things.
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  1. what's what: Merriam-Webster
  2. what's what: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. what's what, what's what: Collins English Dictionary
  4. what's what: Wiktionary
  5. what's what, whats what: Dictionary.com
  6. WHAT'S WHAT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  7. what's what: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. Whats What: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Precisely what the situation really is or what the facts truly are; the true state of things.

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