knew someone when
knew someone when is the simple past of know someone when.
Meaning of know someone when
Verb
know someone when (third-person singular simple present knows someone when, present participle knowing someone when, simple past knew someone when, past participle known someone when)
- To have known a famous person before he or she was famous.
- His friends thought him crazy, as friends always think when a man has an original idea and acts on it. Now, when his friends speak of him they invariably add, "I knew him when—"1915, "Interesting People: Charles Bullard: A Famous Photographer of Cats", in "The American Magazine"
Questions about knew someone when
- What is knew someone when the simple past of?
- Knew someone when is the simple past of know someone when.
Words near knew someone when in the dictionary
- knew someone from Adam
- knew someone from Adam's off ox
- knew someone from the man in the moon
- knew someone from the man on the moon
- knew someone in the biblical sense
- knew someone when
- knew the difference between one's ass and a hole in the ground
- knew the drill
- knew the score
- knew the shit
- knew what o'clock it was
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