know beans
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I didn’t know beans about three-buttoned, single vent, natural-shouldered suits, blue blazers with gold buttons, gray slacks, over-the-calf socks, button-down shirts, cuff links, rep-striped ties, pocket squares, and wing-tipped or penny loafer shoes.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2022
I don’t know beans about blood collection, testing, etc., but maybe one of our marvelous readers does.
From Fox News • May 7, 2020
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
In the heydey of youth He was awfully green, As verdant in truth As you have ever seen; But he soon learned to know beans So it seems.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.
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