| 单词 | not to know one's ass from one's elbow |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to know one's ass from one's elbow P2. not to know one's ass from one's elbow: to be very stupid or ignorant. Also not to know one's ass from a hole in the ground and other variants. ΚΠ 1862 T. Jones Let. 14 Dec. in G. W. Sunderland Five Days to Glory (1970) 69 Colonels and captains so drunk that they..did not know their ass from a musket. 1935 E. Hemingway Let. 19 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 417 The bourgeois critics do not know their ass from a hole in the ground. 1941 F. Swados House of Fury xiv. 171 Oh, Bonnie, you don't know your ass from your elbow. 1962 J. Jones Thin Red Line ii. 55 He's a jerkoff... He don't know his ass from third base. 1996 Chicago Rev. 42 No. 1. 77 I announced..during a lecture that Homer was an old fart who didn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. 2016 Province (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 28 Feb. b11 The Hollywood studios wouldn't know their ass from their elbow where diversity is concerned. < as lemmas |
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