Word info

ins and outs

Noun

Meaning

ins and outs pl (plural only)

(idiomatic) The details or fine points of something.
After a few months, you will know all the ins and outs of the system thoroughly.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck. Alan Sugar

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it. Ewan McGregor

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. Jim Rash

Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us. Jon Heder

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial. Sloane Crosley

You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care. Joy Behar

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