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can't make heads or tails of

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can't make heads or tails (out) of someone or something

Fig. [to be] unable to understand someone or something. (Also with cannot.) John is so strange. I can't make heads or tails of him. Do this report again. I can't make heads or tails out of it.

See also: head, make, of, tail