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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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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