A: John has been suspended from his post. Do you have any idea what happened? B: I don’t know all the ins and outs of this matter, but it seems John has made a serious mistake which causes the company to lose a lot of money. Note: “Ins and outs” as a phrase may have plausibly derived from sewing, the ins and outs referring to the needle as it goes into a piece of cloth from one side and comes out from the other. When all the intricate “ins and outs” are done, a beautiful garment is fully made. The idiom means “the intricate details of a situation or process.” |