have the first idea
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have any knowledge (about something); have a clue.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see have, first, idea.
Example Sentences
- "Do you have the first idea of the worry you've caused me?"
- "We were meant to get a replacement teacher but we usually just get the occasional Part-Timer or maybe a P.E. teacher whose football has been rained off – neither of whom have the first idea about what they're supposed to be teaching us."
- "Like you would have the first idea how to get to Newark Airport."
- "I think if you had the first idea how shitty this looks to me, you'd never have done it in the first place.”"
- "The best instruments known are also due to the genius of Newton; it was he who had the first idea of adapting mirrors to those which serve to measure these distances."
- "I knew that Nabokov had had the first idea for the novel almost four years before his death and that when he still had more than fourteen months to live Véra had reported that he was “about half way” to completion."