without a clue
Example Sentences
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One insider who has been part of conversations about the chances of changing the leader says, "it's not flighty people, not just newbies without a clue, they're not idiots".
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025
Written in the second person, the novel unfolds in Colombo in 1989, when a war photographer named Maali Almeida wakes up dead, without a clue as to how or why he was killed.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022
He washed up at the homeless shelter, desperate to start anew but without a clue how to do it.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2022
It is written, as well, for the children, bless them, as their needs are paramount, just above the desperate, child-free uncle scrambling into late December without a clue.
From Slate • Nov. 27, 2019
I had no idea where they’d found them, but they had, and now my sisters were trying to drive away in a compromised vehicle without a clue as to how to handle it.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
