know beans about

Verb

Meaning

(chiefly US, in negative constructions) To know something, even if only a little, about.

(chiefly US, idiomatic) To know nothing, or almost nothing, about.

Examples

I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs. Anne Tyler

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