know the score
idiom
informal
: to have a good understanding of a situation
Now that she knows the score, she won't make the same mistake again.
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Your team needs to know the score without asking you.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Funnily enough, Baker, a lovely, understated, genuinely humble guy, seemed to know the score before any of the rest of us did.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2025
Those with sweaty pits and callused hands — asphalt rakers, flatbed drivers, farmers, and welders — already know the score.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
For the most part, the reality vets on The Traitors are people who know the score.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
And after months of comparing notes on picket lines, millennial and Gen Z members of the WGA know the score on how things used to work.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
Perhaps those late-arriving crowds in Miami actually do know the score, after all.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
East Hartford senior captain Cooper Lavigne, wrestling for fifth place at 152 pounds, didn’t know the score.
—Lori Riley, courant.com, 25 Feb. 2022
Successfully transforming your organization to be its very best and achieve big bold goals requires everybody to unite their energy around something bigger than themselves, to be able to tell the story, and to know the score.
—Marta Wilson, Forbes, 18 June 2021
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Funnily enough, Baker, a lovely, understated, genuinely humble guy, seemed to know the score before any of the rest of us did.
—Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2025
Those with sweaty pits and callused hands — asphalt rakers, flatbed drivers, farmers, and welders — already know the score.
—Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2024
For the most part, the reality vets on The Traitors are people who know the score.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
And after months of comparing notes on picket lines, millennial and Gen Z members of the WGA know the score on how things used to work.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
Perhaps those late-arriving crowds in Miami actually do know the score, after all.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2023
East Hartford senior captain Cooper Lavigne, wrestling for fifth place at 152 pounds, didn’t know the score.
—Lori Riley, courant.com, 25 Feb. 2022
Successfully transforming your organization to be its very best and achieve big bold goals requires everybody to unite their energy around something bigger than themselves, to be able to tell the story, and to know the score.
—Marta Wilson, Forbes, 18 June 2021
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“Know the score.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/know%20the%20score. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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