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having no idea

having no idea is the present participle and gerund 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 having no idea

What is having no idea the present participle and gerund of?
Having no idea is the present participle and gerund of have no idea.

Words near having no idea in the dictionary

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

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