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make head or tail of

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He could not make head or tail of them and soon grew restless.

From Literature

No, the key point about the reform is that most people simply find it impossible to make head or tail of.

From BBC

Mrs. Frisby stared at all this, trying to make head or tail of it, but she could not.

From Literature

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

I still can’t make head or tail of Peter.

From Literature