make heads or tails of Idiom

can't make heads or tails of something

" can't understand something at all;"

can't make heads or tails of

Idiom(s): can't make heads or tails (out) of sb or sth

Theme: UNDERSTANDING

[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.

make active or cape (out) of (someone or something)

To accept addition or something. This byword is usually acclimated in the abrogating to back the opposite. After spending hours alive with the new allotment of software, I still could not accomplish active or cape out of it. I can't accomplish active or cape of that new guy in accounting. Sometimes, he's absolutely friendly, and again added times he acts like he's never met me before.Learn more: head, make, of, tail

make active or cape of someone or something

Fig. to accept addition or article that addition has said. (Usually with the negative.) I can't accomplish active or cape of Fred. No one can accomplish active or cape of this problem.Learn more: head, make, of, tail

make active or cape of

To understand: I couldn't accomplish active or cape of the report.Learn more: head, make, of, tail

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