knows the drill
knows the drill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of know the drill.
Meaning of know the drill
Verb
know the drill (third-person singular simple present knows the drill, present participle knowing the drill, simple past knew the drill, past participle known the drill)
- 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.2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian
Questions about knows the drill
- What is knows the drill the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Knows the drill is the third-person singular simple present indicative of know the drill.
Words near knows the drill in the dictionary
- knows someone from Adam's off ox
- knows someone from the man in the moon
- knows someone from the man on the moon
- knows someone in the biblical sense
- knows the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
- knows the drill
- knows the score
- knows the shit
- knows what is what
- knows what o'clock it is
- knows what side of one's bread is buttered
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: knows the drill (page history and authors); know the drill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “knows the drill.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knows_the_drill. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.