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Jun 11, 2019 · clue（クルー）は「手がかり」「ヒント」といった意味で何かを理解したり見つけたりするための情報を指して使われる名詞です。 よく否定の言葉であるNOやNOTをともった「No clue（手がかりがない、まったくわからない）」といった形でも見かけます。 言葉としては関係ありませんが乗組員など ...
Feb 27, 2010 · All of these mean the same thing to me in my mind: I don't know / I do not know. I'm not sure / I am not sure. I've no idea / I have no idea. I've no clue / I have no clue. No idea (while you are shrugging your shoulders). No clue (while you are shrugging your shoulders). Reserve the last two as the most informal since they are sentence fragments.
Oct 14, 2014 · Banned. English USA. Oct 14, 2014. #6. There words have distinct meanings but can overlap in some uses. 'Clue' often refers to traces, physical evidence of something larger. A 'hint' is often a conceptual link which may or may not be a 'part' strictly speaking, but may suggest something. 'Hint' is often given by a person, though metaphorically ...
Oct 14, 2018 · English - USA (Midwest/Appalachia) Oct 14, 2018. #5. Lydia Qiu said: Hi all! Which one is correct? a) I hadn't a clue what to do about it. b) I didn't have a clue what to do about it. Americans usually use b but either version is understood.
Mar 18, 2008 · No clue he needed improvement, or that others behaved with more sophistication. 'Dull' can mean boring, or mentally inadept--unable to learn. No clue can also mean mentally inadept (broadly), or simply uninformed (narrowly, as in "I have no clue how nuclear fusion works"). L.
Jan 24, 2008 · A 'clue' can also be something physical, and is typically associated with actual things (finding a piece of evidence in a murder investigation would be 'finding a clue'), or a solid piece of information that leads to knowledge or a discovery, whereas a 'hint' is not. You couldn't "find a hint" unless you'd found "a hint of dust" or "a hint of blood", meaning "a very small amount."
Nov 9, 2005 · It became a catchword, one of the first mega-catchwords of the Media Age, I'd say, and stayed popular long enough to influence our idiom, just possibly. "I haven't a clue" might be echoic of that catch phrase. Even so, to my ear the AE default setting is "I haven't got a clue." As usual the reason it beats out the others isn't grammatical at ...
Dec 13, 2008 · London. English English. Dec 13, 2008. #3. I'm sure JeSuisSnob has the right idea. In fact, it is a rather strange expression. We often use it in the negative, 'He hasn't got a clue,' meaning he has no idea about something, but 'Get a clue' is a rather strange backward-formation from this.
Nov 26, 2022 · Senior Member. Russian. Nov 26, 2022. #1. Is any preposition needed in this sentence after word "clue"? Thank you. I don't have a clue [possible preposition] what you are talking about.
Feb 13, 2010 · British English. Feb 13, 2010. #2. To clue somebody / someone in is an informal expression meaning to give them information so that they understand what is going on. For example: I haven't seen the news for a couple of days, can you clue me in about the latest situation in Haiti?
