have no idea

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English

Verb

have no idea (third-person singular simple present has no idea, present participle having no idea, simple past and past participle had no idea)

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

Related terms

I have no idea

Translations

know not

Czech: nemít tušení
Dutch: geen idee hebben
Malay: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: nu avea habar
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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