{"id":71949,"date":"2019-08-31T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71949"},"modified":"2019-08-31T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T08:45:41","slug":"idioms-with-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/idioms-with-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Idioms With Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As we know it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an expression used when you are talking about something people are familiar with, especially something that is likely to change forever.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A nuclear war could mean the end of the world as we know it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>As you know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This expression is used when you are saying something that somebody already knows.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As you know, we have already discussed this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Get to know<\/strong> = start to be familiar with someone or something<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is nice when you get to know her.<\/li>\n<li>It took me a while to get to know the city properly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>God\/Goodness\/Heaven knows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an expression used for saying that you do not know something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Where on earth is he at the moment?\u2019 \u2018Goodness knows.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I don\u2019t know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This expression is sometimes used for saying that you do not completely agree.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I think the film will be boring.\u2019 \u2018Oh I don\u2019t know. It could be interesting.\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This expression can also be used for criticizing people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t know how people can be so insensitive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you must know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an expression used when you are answering someone in an annoyed way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019m not seeing him, if you must know.<\/li>\n<li>He is not my boyfriend, if you must know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Know something backwards \/ know something inside out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you know something inside out \/ backwards you are very familiar with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know best<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When it comes to toys, children know best.<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to cosmetics, women know best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Know better<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you know better you know that what someone says or does is wrong.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everybody thought that it was an innocent prank, but I knew better. (= I knew that it was not an innocent mistake.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Know your own mind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you know your own mind you are certain about what you like and what you want.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Francis has always been a man who knows his own mind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Know what\u2019s what<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To know what\u2019s what is to be very clever or experienced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know it This is an expression used when you are talking about something people are familiar with, especially something that is likely to change forever. A nuclear war could mean the end&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[186,1072,1073],"class_list":["post-71949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-idioms-2","tag-idioms-with-know","tag-know-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71950,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71949\/revisions\/71950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}