it's all Greek to me
(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
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it's all Greek to me
I can't understand it at all. informalGreek meaning ‘unintelligible language or gibberish’ is recorded from the 16th century. In Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar, Casca, having noted that Cicero speaks Greek, adds ‘for mine own part, it was Greek to me’.
See also: all, Greek
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it’s all ˈGreek to me
(informal, saying) it is too difficult for me to understand: This contract is written in such complicated language that it’s all Greek to me.See also: all, Greek
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- be all Greek to someone
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- Greek to me, it's
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- (it's all) Greek to (one)
- (good) black don't crack
- plot thickens