how was I to know?
informalused to say that something you did wrong was not your fault because you did not have enough information:
I just wanted to give her a surprise; how was I to know you'd already bought tickets?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unaware
- be in the dark idiom
- be on another planet idiom
- benighted
- blind
- blind spot
- blissful
- fail
- faint
- ignorant
- ill-informed
- illiterate
- in blissful ignorance idiom
- lost
- not have a clue/have no clue idiom
- unbeknownst
- unconscious
- uneducated
- unfamiliar
- unknowing
- unnoticed
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