- Greek to someone
- Greek to someoneincomprehensible to someone; as mysterious as Greek writing. •
I don't understand this. It's all Greek to me.
•She said it was Greek to her, and that it made no sense at all.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
Greek to someone
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