to know nothing about someone or something. (Slang.) • Bill doesn't know beans about flying an airplane. • When it comes to flying, I don't know beans. • Nobody knows beans about Bill.
not know beans Also, not know the first thing; not know from nothing. Be ignorant about something, as in a poem published in the Yale Literary Magazine in 1855: “When our recent Tutor is heard to speak, This truth one certainly gleans, Whatever he knows of Euclid and Greek, In Latin he don't know beans.” The beans in this colloquial phrase, dating from the early 1800s, signify something small and worthless; not knowing the first thing about something clearly shows one doesn't know anything about it at all; and the third slangy phrase, with its double negative, implies stupidity as well as ignorance, as in Poor girl, just starting out and she doesn't know from nothing.
know (one's) beans
To be abreast about and/or actual accustomed with something. I had no abstraction you were such a acceptable piano player—you absolutely apperceive your beans!Learn more: bean, knowLearn more:
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