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make_heads_or_tails_of
make head or tail of
English
Alternative forms
- make heads or tails of (US)
- make head nor tail of (US)
Verb
make head or tail of (third-person singular simple present makes head or tail of, present participle making head or tail of, simple past and past participle made head or tail of)
- (idiomatic) To understand even minimally.
- See if you can make head or tail of this chapter. I'm baffled.
- To determine to be good or bad.
Usage notes
- In sense 1, usually with a construction expressing inability, as in "I can't make head or tail of this", "He was unable to make head or tail of some of the pattern-solving puzzles in the IQ test", and so on.
Translations
understand even minimally
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