слыхом не слыхивать

• СЛЫХОМ НЕ СЛЫХАТЬ coll

[VP; fixed WO]

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1. слыхом не слыхивать о ком-чём, про что. Also: СЛЫХОМ НЕ СЛЫХИВАТЬ coll [subj: human]

⇒ not to have any knowledge or information about s.o. or sth.:

- X слыхом не слыхал об Y-e - X has never heard of Y;

- X knows nothing about Y;

- X doesn't have the faintest idea (the slightest idea, the foggiest <notion>) (who person Y is <what thing Y is etc>);

- [usu. in response to a question] X doesn't have a clue.

     ♦ "Эта Светлана, о которой я слыхом не слыхивала до позавчерашнего дня, ждёт ребёнка от Сергея" (Трифонов 3). "This Svetlana, whom I had never heard of until the day before yesterday, is expecting Sergei's child" (3a).

2. слыхом не слыхивать кого rare [infin only; impers predic with быть]

⇒ s.o. is absent altogether, has disappeared:

- X-a слыхом не слыхать{{}}≈ there is no (not a) sign (trace) of X;

- X is nowhere to be found.