单词 | to know from nothing |
释义 | > as lemmas(not) to know from nothing intransitive. U.S. colloquial = to know of —— 2 at Phrasal verbs. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in (not) to know from nothing: to be totally ignorant, have no knowledge or information. [After Yiddish visn nisht fun gornisht, lit. ‘to know nothing about anything’ (frequently in er veyst nisht fun gornisht, lit. ‘he doesn't know anything about anything’).] ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750 to know little (or nothing) and care less1783 not to know beans1833 not to have the remotest1864 (not) to know from nothing1933 not to know shit from Shinolaa1948 1933 Philadelphia Daily Bull. 1 Feb. 6 You don't know from nothing , you're not very bright. 1936 Mademoiselle Mar. 43/1 I find I belong to the wrong gender to take part in such confabulations, and know from nothing. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §150/3 Be ignorant, know from nothing. 1945 ‘F. Feikema’ Boy Almighty (1950) xvii. 162 Them San dietitians, they don't know from nuthin'. 1945 T. Shor in H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (1948) Suppl. II. 695 A square don't know from nothin' and a creep is worse'n a jerk. 1946 F. P. Scannell In Line of Duty 24 Called me over and said they had something lined up outside town... Hell, I didn't know from anything, but I said no thanks. 1964 J. Charyn Once upon Droshky 74 I worked day and night behind my father's dry goods stand... Who knew from school! 1968 Encounter Sept. 22/1 He knows from nothin'. 1996 T. Rosenbaum Elijah Visible 109 You want to know from a camp? This is a camp. 2007 S. R. Cooper Vegas Nerve 146 The guy minding the front desk is from the Middle East, been in the country about a week, didn't know from nothing. < as lemmas |
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