You Know Better Than That Idiom Meaning

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You lot know ameliorate than that - definition

• Thread starter Bambik
• Beginning date Feb 26, 2011

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• #1

I need assist, please... I have some issues to understand this phrase.
It is from my conversation with ane man.
I said " I guess, you really don't similar me" ( I know he did before, not sure most it at present) and he replied " Yous know better than that..."
What could he possibly mean by that? What does it hateful in other words? Thanks.

• #two

I said " I guess, you really don't like me" ( I know he did before, not sure about it now) and he replied " You know ameliorate than that..."
What could he possibly mean past that? What does it mean in other words?

He ways that what yous have simply said is non true, and you know it.

In this situation, he is saying that he likes you, and that you know he does.

• #iii

If I heard this phrase I would recollect that a person can mean several things. fivejedjon, do you observe this phrase articulate and accurate hither? Isn't it two-faced?

• #4

If I heard this phrase I would think that a person tin mean several things. fivejedjon, exercise you lot detect this phrase clear and accurate here? Isn't it two-faced?

When a parent says it to a child who has misbehaved, it can be taken as a rebuke. In Bambik's OP it was a reassurance.

With native speakers, information technology is unlikely to be misunderstood.

• #v

With native speakers, it is unlikely to exist misunderstood.

It is interesting to notice that certain langauges shape a sure thinking. In this case nosotros tin can see that the addressee understood all the words he was told (and the words were not rare or hard) but he still didn't get the message. I think I wouldn't take gotten it too. It makes me call back that dissimilar langauges shape unlike thinking or something else, I can't identify what it is. If I heard this phrase said in my native langauge I would just empathise that the speaker thinks that I know better than I have said I know, but I wouldn't call back that this "amend" would somehow imply that what I have said is not true. Interesting.

• #six

It is interesting to notice that certain langauges shape a certain thinking. In this case we tin can come across that the addressee understood all the words he was told (and the words were not rare or difficult) but he nonetheless didn't get the bulletin.

Don't forget that Bambik is not a native speaker.

• #seven

It is interesting to notice that certain langauges shape a certain thinking. In this case we can see that the addressee understood all the words he was told (and the words were not rare or hard) but he even so didn't get the bulletin. I recollect I wouldn't have gotten it too. Information technology makes me recollect that different langauges shape different thinking or something else, I can't place what information technology is. If I heard this phrase said in my native langauge I would just empathize that the speaker thinks that I know better than I have said I know, but I wouldn't remember that this "better" would somehow imply that what I have said is not truthful. Interesting.

I am not a teacher.

I recollect that the miracle you are seeing is idiom. That sequence of words conveys a thought that cannot be discerned in the words themselves. That aforementioned thought would be expressed in another mode in another language, but the thought is common to u.s.a. all. If it were not, idiom would not piece of work the style it does. The speaker was gently chiding her (?) for letting her insecurities cloud her outlook, telling her to look into her own heart for the answer which he was assuring her was that he did similar her. (Sorry about the convoluted sentence, but it goes to illustrate the power of idiom. With it, a circuitous idea can be expressed in very few words, words that in and of themselves do non express information technology.)

• #viii

Does it exist in a dictionary?

• #nine

Does information technology exist in a dictionary?

Information technology's in my OALD, 6th edition.

• #xi

If I heard this phrase I would call back that a person tin can hateful several things. fivejedjon, exercise yous observe this phrase articulate and accurate hither? Isn't it two-faced?

I remember I see why you think it two-faced. You are bold (as anyone who didn't know the idiom would assume) that the 'know' in 'know better' had something to do with

knowing

. Then that friend of the OP was merely saying 'You know yous're wrong to believe that'.

But the 'know' in 'know better' doesn't necessarily have anything to do with knowing. Information technology can just, for instance, hateful 'knowing how to behave'; a parent might say 'You should know better than to play football in the road'.

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