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make head or tail of

  1. see can't make head or tail of.



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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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