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In the captioned sentence:

You don’t have a clue where your money is.

If "where your money is" is a nominal clause, what is its relationship to "clue"?

I am thinking maybe the nominal clause is an adjectival clause, acting as an adjective predicative to the noun "clue".

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    Have a clue is a negative-polarity idiom that is equivalent to know, be aware. As such, it has many of the same affordances as know, including the ability to take a wh-clause complement. I.e, the sentence means "You don't know where your money is", and the wh-clause is clearly the direct object of know.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Aug 11, 2016 at 22:06
  • The word clueless has a meaning that is related to this idiom — when applied to a person, it means uninformed, ignorant, confused, or even stupid.
    – Scott - Слава Україні
    Commented Aug 12, 2016 at 0:38
  • "Where your money is" is the type of clue you don't have.
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 18:10
  • And the wh-clause is also called an embedded question.
    – Greg Lee
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 18:32
  • @GregLee - Except that that terminology is misleading -- there is no question.
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Sep 30, 2016 at 19:55

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Have a clue is a negative-polarity idiom that is equivalent to know, be aware. As such, it has many of the same affordances as know, including the ability to take a wh-clause complement. I.e, the sentence means "You don't know where your money is", and the wh-clause is clearly the direct object of know. – John Lawler

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