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none the wiser
Idioms and Phrases
Knowing no more than before, as in He tried to explain the tax structure, but in the end I was none the wiser . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
All the agents speak fluent English, and the clients at the other end of the line are none the wiser that they're talking people in Mexico rather than the US.
They can take ceremonial photographs, have them published in local Korean papers, and Min’s other grandparent will remain none the wiser until the day he dies.
“This effectively allows operators to charge the customer for 13 months a year instead of 12,” Bradshaw explains, “and most customers are none the wiser.”
The mission — despite its imperfections, obstacles, and delays — was accomplished, and the thousands of attendees who enjoyed its offerings were none the wiser to its taxing beginnings.
We could have stood here beyond the allotted three questions and asked three hundred more and the truth, probably, is that at the end of it we’d have been none the wiser about what goes on inside the head of this gifted but flawed genius on days like these.
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