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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