in the know

English

Prepositional phrase

in the know

1. Informed; aware.

   Those in the know don't shop at that kind of store.

   Anyone who is in the know doesn't shop there.

   He appears to be in the know about such matters.

   • 2022 January 12, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 948, page 70:

     "Reet. Wot fort do? I'm off wom.". No, we're not speaking a foreign language, although the bulk of readers could be forgiven for thinking so. Rather, for those in the know, it is of course a typical example of 'Wiganese' dialect, which has been brought to life by an Avanti West Coast-funded mural in the underpass of Wigan North Western station.

Antonyms

• in the dark

Translations

informed, aware

• Arabic: عَلَى عِلْم (ʕalā ʕilm)
• Armenian: տեղյակ (hy) (teġyak), բիթի (bitʻi)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: al corrent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 知情 (zh) (zhīqíng), 有知識的 / 有知识的 (yǒu zhīshi de)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: informeret, velinformeret
• Dutch: ingeweid
• Estonian: teadlik
• Finnish: tietävä (fi)
• French: au courant (fr), au parfum (colloquial)
• German: eingeweiht (de), im Bilde über etwas sein
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: tájékozott (hu), beavatott (hu), jól értesült, képben van
• Italian: al corrente
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: wtajemniczony
• Portuguese: informado (pt) m, atento (pt) m
• Russian: в ку́рсе (ru) (v kúrse)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: informado (es), al loro (colloquial), en el ajo (colloquial), al tanto, en la pomada (colloquial)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: обі́знаний (uk) (obíznanyj), в ку́рсі (v kúrsi)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can