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can't make heads or tails of

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can't make heads or tails (out) of someone or something
Fig. [to be] unable to understand someone or something. (Also with cannot.) John is so strange. I can't make heads or tails of him. Do this report again. I can't make heads or tails out of it.
See also: head, make, tail


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Frederic and Hugo may be two sides of the same coin; the only problem is that Frederic can't make heads or tails of it.
Mary and Ray Smith can't make heads or tails of a new presidential dollar coin they found last week.
Farkas has spent a good deal of his time learning how to read the scrawling that many people can't make heads or tails of.
 
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