make head or tail of
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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, chiefly in the negative, with can't/cannot) To understand even minimally.
- Antonyms: make head nor tail of, make neither head nor tail of
- See if you can make head or tail of the last section in this chapter. I'm baffled.
- He was unable to make head or tail of some of the pattern-solving puzzles in the IQ test.
- To determine to be good or bad.
Translations[edit]
understand even minimally
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