What does 'not know one end of a pig from another' mean?
It is having absolutely no idea about something, isn't it?
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it would usually be used for someone who doesn't know anything PRACTICAL or USEFUL or DOWN-TO-EARTH
"The professor is a brilliant physicist, but I swear he doesn't know one end of a pig from another. Yesterday I saw him filling his gas tank with diesel instead of gas."
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I understand this, as an English native speaker, as an insult to one's intelligence. It is to say, that the person can tell no difference between the front end of a pig and the back end.
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