make heads or tails of someone or something
- make heads or tails of someone or something
make heads or tails of someone or something
Fig. to understand someone or something that someone has said. (
Usually with the negative.) •
I can't make heads or tails of Fred.
•
No one can make heads or tails of this problem.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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