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
As has happened so many times since, I realised I didn't know beans.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2013
Are you aware, Mrs. Chase, of the awful significance of that New England phrase of condemnation, 'You don't know beans'?
From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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