inner workings
Noun
Meaning
inner workings pl (plural only)
The mechanisms that function internally to a system and are not outwardly visible
Nobody really understands the inner workings of politics.
Synonyms
Examples
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
I know nothing about Russia. I know - I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia.
I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.
The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.