Also
can't make heads or tails of. Fail to understand, be quite confused about, as in I can't make head or tail of these directions. A version of this term dates back to Roman times, when Cicero wrote Ne caput nec pedes ("neither head nor feet") to describe confusion. In the current idiom the precise allusion is unclear: head and tail may mean top and bottom, beginning and end, or the two sides of a coin. [Second half of 1600s]
can't make head or tail of
| Idioms: can't make head or tail of |
Learn More
 | tail (Idiom) |
| make out (Idiom) |
| head (Idiom) |
Help us answer these
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Idioms. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
Related answers
- What is the meaning of Can't make heads or tails of it?
- Head and a tail I can move around but you can't take me for a walk What am I?
ADVERTISEMENT
Answer these
- What does can't make heads or tails out of it mean?
- How do you make head or tail in java code?
- To make neither head nor tail of something?
