full well

1. Very well, exceedingly well, as in You know full well how much this costs. [c. 1700]

Example Sentences

There, his teammates were waiting with water bottles ready to drench him in celebration, knowing full well how much Friday meant to their newly minted point guard.

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"We know full well that if we go back, we will suffer things far worse than we have already suffered," Noureddin Bongo told AFP ahead of the trial.

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“When I first started shorting these mortgages in 2005,” Burry wrote in an e-mail, “I knew full well that it was not likely to pay out within two years—and for a very simple reason. The vast majority of mortgages originated the last few years had a rather ominously attractive feature called the ‘teaser rate period.’

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"I have to give them credit for carrying on the story, knowing full well that from the very start there would be people criticising the choice of main actor no matter who it was."

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They have taken the dollars while knowing full well that the audience they deliver and their gambling partners want—young men—is the very audience that is most susceptible to problem gambling.

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