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foggy
(redirected from fogginess)

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foggiest (idea)
Fig. (even) a hazy idea. (Usually in the negative.) I'm sorry I don't know. I haven't the foggiest. I don't have the foggiest idea of how to do this.

not have the foggiest (idea/notion)  (informal)
to not know the answer to a question 'Do you know where Kate's gone?' 'I haven't the foggiest.' (often + question word) The photocopier's broken down again, and nobody has the foggiest idea how to fix it.
See also: have

not have the faintest idea also not have the foggiest idea
to not know anything at all about something not have the foggiest notion I didn't have the faintest idea where I was or which way I was going – I simply knew I had to get away. These people don't have the foggiest idea what America's really like.
Usage notes: also used in the forms I have no idea and I haven't the slightest idea
See also: faint, have, idea

not have the foggiest notion

to not know anything at all about something not have the faintest idea I don't have the foggiest notion what that book is about.
See also: have, notion


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Here too, however, there is a good bit of fogginess on the historical baseline: when and to what extent were phobias less common, and to what extent is the impression based on solid data rather than changes in diagnosis (themselves interesting, but rather a different matter)?
2,3) These symptoms include sleep disturbance, chronic fatigue, morning stiffness, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety, depression, mental fogginess, slowness of thought, decreased concentration, paresthesia, and pain upon moderate pressure at various tender points across the body.
The downturn didn't seem to come from that period of just-awakened fogginess familiar to many people.
 
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