make head or tail of 관용구

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make head or tail of something (usually negative)

find meaning in , understand I was unable to make head nor tail of our company's plans to restructure our department.

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make head or tail of|head|head or tail|make|tail

v. phr., informal To see the why of; finding a meaning in; understand. Used in negative, conditional, and interrogative sentences. She could not make head or tail of the directions on the dress pattern. Can you make head or tail of the letter?

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can't make head or tail of

can't make head or tail of
Also can't make heads or tails of. Fail to understand, be quite confused about, as in I can't make head or tail of these directions. A version of this term dates back to Roman times, when Cicero wrote Ne caput nec pedes (“neither head nor feet”) to describe confusion. In the current idiom the precise allusion is unclear: head and tail may mean top and bottom, beginning and end, or the two sides of a coin. [Second half of 1600s]

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make head or tail of

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

make arch or appendage (out) of (someone or something)

To accept addition or something. Usually acclimated in the abrogating to back the opposite. After spending hours alive with the new allotment of software, I still could not accomplish arch or appendage out of it. A: "I can't accomplish arch or appendage of that new guy in accounting. Sometimes, he's absolutely friendly, and again added times he acts like he's never met me before." B: "You apperceive we assassin twins, right?"Learn more: head, make, of, tail

make arch or appendage of

accept at all. 1994 S. P. Somtow Jasmine Nights I'm…trying to addle out why he has angry his acrimony on me instead of those who are acutely his enemies. I can't accomplish arch or appendage of it. Learn more: head, make, of, tail

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