Timeline for Is there any phrase or idiom for "impossible to find out about something"?
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| Jul 17, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | Greybeard | I don't think there is an idiom, per se but "They had stashed the drugs where even Sherlock Holmes would not find them!" would work. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 13:01 | history | edited | nnnnnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 12:59 | comment | added | nnnnnn | @YesMe91 - This is the nearest English idiom I can think of, actually the only appropriate one that came readily to mind. "God only knows" doesn't have negative wording, but in actual usage the meaning is effectively the same - the obvious implication is that nobody (else) knows how to find out about the thing in question. | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 12:36 | comment | added | YesMe91 | We too use the expression "God only knows" in Persian. But I was looking for something more similar to the expression about genie. Something with the same negative structure! | |
| Jun 17, 2020 at 12:23 | history | edited | nnnnnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 12:18 | history | answered | nnnnnn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |