Brewer's: What's What

He knows what's what. He is a shrewd fellow not to be imposed on. One of the senseless questions of logic was “Quid est quid?”

He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.

Butler: Hudibras, part i. canto 1.

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