know beans
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I don’t know beans about blood collection, testing, etc., but maybe one of our marvelous readers does.
From Fox News ● May 7, 2020
Brent is from West Virginia, and West Virginians, as they will be the first to tell you, know beans.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2016
Another Dallas newspaperman, Wick Fowler, also fired back: “If you know beans about chili, you know that chili has no beans.”
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2015
"When Kennedy challenged us to go to the moon we didn't know beans about it," says Cernan, now aged 80.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2014
"While you are foolin' with that thing, which ain't for rivers, and which you don't know beans about handlin', Dannie will haul in the Bass, and serve you right, too!"
From At the Foot of the Rainbow by Stratton-Porter, Gene
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