know your way around

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to be familiar with a place, subject, etc.

   You know your way around an engine?

   You seem to know your way around a kitchen.

In the movies · 11

• - You know your way around. - I've been here before.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead1991
• You know your way around an engine?The Place Beyond the Pines2013
• Frank Burns does not know his way around an operating theater.M*A*S*H1970
• You don't know your way around the town.The Rundown2003
• How do you know your way around? lt's incredible.Shanghai Knights2003
• Okay, so you know your way around. We can hide out.eXistenZ1999
• You seem to know your way around a kitchen.The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!1988
• - But, Joy... - Sadness, you may know your way around down here, but I know Riley.Inside Out2015

Learn it in full scenes

• M*A*S*H1970
  • Hawkeye and Duke Report for Duty
  • Mulcahy Teaches Ho-Jon to Read
  • Hawkeye and Duke Want the Chaplain Out
• Inside Out2015
  • Broccoli on the Pizza
  • Sadness Nearly Touches a Core Memory
  • Riley Introduces Herself and Cries

From the same entry

• before you know where you are
• be not to know
• for all you, I, they, know
• God knows
• I don't know how, why, etc.
• I know
• know as well as I do
• know backwards
• know best
• know better
• know by sight
• know different

More idioms

• too good to be true
• be in shoes
• early on
• take part
• by any chance
• for good
• that depends
• out of the way
• be rid of
• get on nerves
• take for granted
• it's just a matter of time