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
“Well, I don’t know ‘Pyramids,’ but I do know beans, and how to cook them.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn
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