know too much

know too much

cliché To know too much detailed or intimate information (about someone or something). The phrase implies that the person with such knowledge must be or will be prevented from divulging it to others, perhaps by nefarious means. If he's worked here for that long, he knows too much. Get him to sign an NDA. The accountant knows too much about our... less legal sources of income. Eliminate him.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

know too much

be in possession of too much important information to be allowed to live or continue as normal.
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  • be all Greek to someone
  • Greek to me
  • Greek to me, it's
  • it's all Greek to me
  • (good) black don't crack
  • (it's all) Greek to (one)
  • Greek to someone
  • Greek
  • Greek to
References in periodicals archive
Especially in the South, where people didn't know too much at that time and weren't allowed to learn very much.