make head or tail of
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No, the key point about the reform is that most people simply find it impossible to make head or tail of.
From BBC
If you can’t make head or tail of what’s going on with Brexit at this moment, what with all the stalled votes and extended deadlines and general turmoil, I promise you’re not alone in your befuddlement.
From Slate
Here is one way canine fiction is a lot like the regular kind: It loves us people, naturally, but it struggles, baffled and earnest, to make head or tail of what on earth we think we are doing.
From New York Times
“Naturally it worries me. I cannot make head or tail of it.”
From Literature
But the growing complexity of their work created a problem: laymen could not make head or tail of it.
From Economist
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