Idiom
it's all Greek to me
Meaning
I don't understand any of it; it makes no sense.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I tried to read the manual, but it's all Greek to me.”
“My professor explained the new physics theory for an hour, but honestly, it's all Greek to me.”
“Although the legal document was written in my native language, the complex terminology meant that it was all Greek to me.”
Examples
simple
“I tried to read the manual, but it's all Greek to me.”
contextual
“My professor explained the new physics theory for an hour, but honestly, it's all Greek to me.”
complex
“Although the legal document was written in my native language, the complex terminology meant that it was all Greek to me.”
Origin
First quoted as it was Greek to me in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, possibly translated from a sentence in Medieval Latin.
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