Showing posts with label no where?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label no where?. Show all posts

Monday, March 23, 2015

nowhere, know where

Nowhere or nowhere means not any place; a pretend or non-existent place or state, or, figuratively,  a state of anonymity or obscurity, or of failure to move ahead or succeed--
"He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land..."
We looked everywhere; the tickets are nowhere to be found.
He was thirty, and getting nowhere .
This argument is getting us nowhere.

Know where or know where means to have knowledge or perception as to the location of some place or thing--
"Do you know where you're going to?"
He doesn't know where he left his keys.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"If you don't know where you lost them, all this searching will get us nowhere."

Note--"no, where?" is a negative response to a question concerning the location of a place or thing--
Do you know where we're going on Saturday?
No, where?