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not know A from a windmill
not know A from a windmill
To be stupid. It references the vaguely similar shape of the letter A and a windmill. How do you manage to burn pasta? It's like you don't know A from a windmill.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Fifi | | fee-FEE | French |
| Fadila | | - | Arabic |
| Mcgee | | [mə'gi] | |
| Dee | | DEE | English |
| Philippa | | FIL-i-pə (English), fi-LIP-ə (English) | English (British), German |
| Aurel | | ow-REL (German) | German, Romanian, Czech, Slovak |