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what do I know

what do I know phrase: implies that a statement is based on a guess or assumption rather than on knowledge or evidence.

Phrase

what do I know?

  1. (rhetoric) Implies that a statement is based on a guess or assumption rather than on knowledge or evidence.
    • Maybe girl grasshoppers find long legs attractive in boy grasshoppers, but what do I know?

Questions about what do I know

What does what do I know mean?
What do I know means implies that a statement is based on a guess or assumption rather than on knowledge or evidence.
What part of speech is what do I know?
What do I know is a phrase.

Words near what do I know in the dictionary

  1. what date is it today
  2. what day is it today
  3. what did I tell you
  4. what did your last slave die of
  5. what do I care
  6. what do I know
  7. what do you do
  8. what do you do for a living
  9. what do you know
  10. what do you make the time
  11. what do you mean

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