What does have no idea mean?

have no idea

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.30 in modern English

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verb

To not know at all.

verb

To be mistaken; to not have a correct idea.

"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)."

has no idea (present, singular) having no idea (participle, present) had no idea (participle, past) had no idea (past)

I have no idea

I have no idea

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