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have no idea

have no idea verb: to not know at all.

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

Forms of have no idea

third-person singular presenthas no idea
present participlehaving no idea
past participlehad no idea
pasthad no idea

Questions about have no idea

What does have no idea mean?
Have no idea means to not know at all.
What part of speech is have no idea?
Have no idea is a verb.
What is the past tense of have no idea?
The past tense of have no idea is had no idea.

Words near have no idea in the dictionary

  1. have more chins than Chinatown
  2. have more money than God
  3. have more of something in one's finger than
  4. have no business
  5. have no fear of ice cold beer
  6. have no idea
  7. have no right
  8. have no time for
  9. have no use for
  10. have none of something
  11. have not

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