know the drill

present singular third person knows the drill · participle present knowing the drill · past knew the drill · participle past known the drill

1. idiomaticinformalTo be acquainted with the normal process or procedure of a given activity or situation; to be familiar with how something is done.

   By the time of my third, five months ago, I was a right bossy cow about what I wanted because I knew the drill. For reasons I shan’t bore you with, I got them to induce me at 39 weeks, at 10am, with the epidural going in first, and it was all a dream.

   2014 December 5, Marina Hyde, “Childbirth is as awful as it is magical, thanks to our postnatal ‘care’”, in The Guardian