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had no idea

had no idea is the simple past and past participle of have no idea.

Meaning of have no idea

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)

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

Questions about had no idea

What is had no idea the simple past and past participle of?
Had no idea is the simple past and past participle of have no idea.

Words near had no idea in the dictionary

  1. had more chins than a Chinese phonebook
  2. had more chins than Chinatown
  3. had more money than God
  4. had more of something in one's finger than
  5. had no business
  6. had no idea
  7. had no time for
  8. had no use for
  9. had none of it
  10. had none of something
  11. had nothing on

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