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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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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