Greek イディオム
Greek to me
(See it was Greek to me)
it was Greek to me
"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
Greek
be Greek to someone
to be incomprehensible or unintelligible to someone
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.