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• Not just another pretty face

  noun phrase Not someone or something of no particular distinction; not a specious person or thing: He had a time convincing them he was a genuine expert, not just another pretty face [1970s+; fr the plight of a young woman, esp in popular fiction or film, who has intelligence, talent, etc, but fears she is […]

• Not just whistling dixie

  verb phrase To be saying something important or useful: When they warned us about this they weren’t just whistling Dixie Related Terms whistle dixie

• Not know beans

  verb phrase (Variations: diddly or diddley or diddly-damn or diddly-poo or diddly-poop or diddly-shitor diddly-squat or diddly-squirt or diddlywhoop or shit or squat or zilch or zip may replace beans) To be very ignorant; not know even the fundamentals •In each case the positive and negative idiom have the same meaning: You don’t know beans, […]

• Not know from nothing

  verb phrase To be ignorant; be deeply uninformed or ill-informed: Gallo knows from nothing [1936+; fr Yiddish nit zu wissen fin gornisht] Related Terms know from nothing

• Not know shit from shinola

  verb phrase NOT KNOW one’s ASS FROM one’s ELBOW •Often euphemized: a tightfisted banker who doesn’t know what from Shinola/ In high school I didn’t know shoot from Shinola [1930+; fr Shinola2, a brand of shoe polish; used partly for a suggestion of brown color, mainly for alliteration]

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