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Idioms and Phrases

Be able to recognize something as wrong or not possible, as in Mary should know better than to leave her child alone in the house , or Try to get in without a ticket? You know better than that . [c. 1700]
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They know better, and they're not doing anything.

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When Sarr scored, it looked like Ange cupped his ears to say: I know better.

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“I just questioned our nation’s top national security officials in the House Intelligence Committee hearing. They could not admit that the messages in their signal chat were classified. This is ridiculous, they know better, and they are lying to the American people,†he said.

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Musk is savvy enough to know better than to say this about the U.S., but he's been happy to say it of France, denouncing the nation for having a retirement age of 62, only three years short of the U.S.

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As Kyle Chayka explained in February for the New Yorker, "Silicon Valley is premised on the idea that its founders and engineers know better than anyone else," and "they must be able to govern better than politicians and federal employees."

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