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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

have no idea en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To not know at all.
  2. To be mistaken; to not have a correct idea.
    • For both Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan in the US, what was to blame for the slump in the late-1970s^([sic]) was clear (though we now know they really had no idea). 2019, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, page 236:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
had no idea Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had no idea Tense=Past lexicographic
having no idea Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
has no idea Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

I have no idea

Translations (7)

el δεν έχω ιδέα (know not) · ro nu avea habar (know not) · pt saber lá (know not) · es no tener ni idea (know not) · nl geen idee hebben (know not) · cs nemít tušení (know not) · pl nie mieć pojęcia (know not)