know the drill

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know the drill

verb knows the drill · knowing the drill · knew the drill · known the drill

  1. idiomatic, informal To be acquainted with the normal process or procedure of a given activity or situation; to be familiar with how something is done. By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.

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@misc{know_the_drill_2026,
  title = {know the drill},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/know%20the%20drill},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}