make head or tail of
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As upsetting as this is, I really can’t make head or tail of it.
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2016
Who can make head or tail of what goes on in the scenes for Princess Pirlipat and the mice in Act II?
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2015
When C-day finally arrived last week, many Aussies still could not make head or tail of the new money.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not one of them could make head or tail of the problem: "The common external tangent of two tangent circles of radii 8 inches and 2 inches is � ."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Frisby stared at all this, trying to make head or tail of it, but she could not.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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