can't make heads or tails (out) of someone or something
- can't make heads or tails (out) of someone or something
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.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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