know B from a battledore

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know B from a battledore (third-person singular simple present knows B from a battledore, present participle knowing B from a battledore, simple past knew B from a battledore, past participle known B from a battledore)

  1. (archaic, often in the negative) To know anything at all; to have the most basic common sense or intelligence.
    Synonyms: know A from B, (UK, vulgar) know one's arse from one's elbow, (US, vulgar) know one's ass from a hole in the ground
    • Nashe, “To His Readers, Hee Cares Not What They Be”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: ">…] for N L and C B , →OCLC:
      Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and vvrite in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch vvater out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe vvithout ſovving, and vvring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name, and the right tricke of a workman.]