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you don't know what you're talking about

you don't know what you're talking about phrase: what you said is so wrong it reveals you lack basic understanding of the subject or relevant experience.

Phrase

you don't know what you're talking about

  1. What you said is so wrong it reveals you lack basic understanding of the subject or relevant experience.

Synonyms of you don't know what you're talking about

Questions about you don't know what you're talking about

What does you don't know what you're talking about mean?
You don't know what you're talking about means what you said is so wrong it reveals you lack basic understanding of the subject or relevant experience.
What part of speech is you don't know what you're talking about?
You don't know what you're talking about is a phrase.

Words near you don't know what you're talking about in the dictionary

  1. you don't dip your pen in the inkwell
  2. you don't fish off the company pier
  3. you don't get owt for nowt
  4. you don't get something for nothing
  5. you don't get your nookie where you get your cookies
  6. you don't know what you're talking about
  7. you don't know what you've got till it's gone
  8. you don't know where it's been
  9. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
  10. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
  11. you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

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