Greek to me, it's
(it's) (all) Greek to me
cliché This might as well be a foreign language, because I don't understand it at all. The phrase comes from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Can you make sense of these instructions? It's all Greek to me!
See also: Greek
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
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.
See also: Greek
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- (it's) (all) Greek to me
- be all Greek to someone
- Greek to me
- it's all Greek to me
- Greek to someone
- (it's all) Greek to (one)
- Greek
- Greek to
- (good) black don't crack
- the plot thickens