know best

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know best

to have opinions that should be accepted and respected Mom knows best when it comes to judging a person's character.

Usage notes: used to suggest that such opinions are based on greater knowledge and experience than other people have

See also: best, know

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"Because, if it is to spite her," Biddy pursued, "I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context "Very well; I suppose you know best," replied Tess with calm abandonment. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context			knock to knock together knock up knock wood knock yourself out knock-down, drag-out fight knock-down-drag-out knocked in knocked out knocked up knot knot together know know a thing or two know a trick or two know ABCs know about know all the angles know as know as much about as a hog knows about Sunday know at a glance that know backwards know backwards and forwards know backwards and forwards and know forwards and backwards know beans about know best know better know by know by heart know by name know by sight know different know from know from Adam know from memory know if are coming or going know inside out know like the back of hand know like the palm of hand know no bounds know no more about than a frog knows about bedsheets know of know one for what one is know onions know only too well know place know something know stuff know the drill know the first thing about know the half of it			knouting knouts KNOV know know know know know a thing or two know a trick or two know ABCs know about Know About Business know again know all the angles know all the answers know all the answers know all the answers know all the answers know all the answers Know and Network know apart know arse from elbow know as know as much about as a hog knows about Sunday know at a glance that know backwards know backwards know backwards and forwards know backwards and forwards and know forwards and backwards know beans about know best know better know by know by heart know by heart know by name know by sight know by sight know by sight know different know different know different know entirely know for a fact know for a fact know from know from know from know from Adam know from memory Know How Fund Know How Know Where Know How You Feel know if are coming or going know in bones know in the biblical sense know in the biblical sense know inside out know inside out Know It All know like a book

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