"I could not understand what was said; it was like a foreign language" "When he asked me what I had learned about DNA, I replied, ""I don't know. It was Greek to me."""
all Greek to me
Idiom(s): (all) Greek to me
Theme: CONFUSION
unintelligible to me. (Usually with some form of be.) • I can't understand it. It's Greek to me. • It's all Greek to me. Maybe Sally knows what it means.
Greek to me, it's
Greek to me, it's Also, it's all Greek to me. It is beyond my comprehension, as in This new computer program is all Greek to me. This expression was coined by Shakespeare, who used it literally in Julius Caesar (1:2), where Casca says of a speech by Seneca, deliberately given in Greek so that some would not understand it, “For mine own part, it was Greek to me.” It soon was transferred to anything unintelligible.
(it's all) Greek to (one)
cliché (It is) absolutely unintelligible, as if it is accounting in a accent that one does not speak. The byword comes from Shakespeare's comedy Julius Caesar. Mom said these instructions are Greek to her and that we should appearance them to Dad.A: "Can you accept this absurdity message?" B: "Sorry, Greek to me. You'd bigger ask one of the programmers."Learn more: Greek
Greek to (someone)
incomprehensible to someone; as abstruse as Greek writing. I don't accept this. It's all Greek to me.She said it was Greek to her, and that it fabricated no faculty at all.Learn more: GreekLearn more:
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Dizionario di parole simili, diverso tenore, sinonimi, di invocazione per Idioma Greek to