backward and forward

backward and forward or backwards and forwards {adv. phr.}

To the full extent; in all details; thoroughly; completely.

He understood automobile engines backwards and forwards.

He knew basketball rules backwards and forwards.

I explained matters to him so that he understood backwards and forwards how it was.

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