have no idea

English

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.
   • 2019, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, page 236:

     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).

Related terms

• I have no idea

Translations

know not

• Czech: nemít tušení
• Dutch: geen idee hebben
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: nu avea habar
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• “have no idea”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.