КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «MAKE HEAD OR TAIL OF»
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
See N27. H141 To make neither Head or tail of 1775 Lee Papers 1.208: I can
make neither head or tail of it myself. 1775 MLewis in Webb Correspondence
1.103: A man must be endued with a spirit of Divination to make Head or Tail of it.
Bartlett Jere Whiting,
1977
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A Dictionary
of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
Not to make head or tail of something (APP 176; ODEP 360; EAP 205; MP 294)
1859 "I can't make head or tail of a word Dr. Hopkins says." (p. 550) Stowe,
Harriet B. Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. New York:
The ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder,
2005
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English-Albanian Dictionary
of Idioms
I've heard about making hay while the sun shines but it's a bit mean to start
chatting up your brother's girlfriend while he 's in hospital. make head caj (eci)
perpara □ They made head against the wind. make head or tail of sth kuptoj,
man vesh, ...
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Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
I can't make head or tail of it." —Groucho Marx in "Duck Soup" (1933) If you can't
make heads or tails of something, you can't understand it at all. Without a head or
tail, a top or bottom, a beginning or end, it is hard to make any sense ofit.
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Rajpal Dictionary
Of English Idioms & Phrases
away for it has been rightly said that make hay while the sun shines Make head
or tail of: Find any sense in * I could not make any head or tail of his story * He
spoke so rapidly that I could make no head or tail of his speech Make headway: ...
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Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to ...
I was sometimes able to hear a word or two at the start and understand it and
then the next lot of words sort of merged into one another and I could not make
head or tail of it. ... Sometimes when other kids spoke to me I could scarcely hear
...
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The American Heritage Dictionary
of Idioms, Second Edition
This ex- pression was already a proverb in the mid-1500s. can't make head or tail
of Also can't make heads or tails of. Fail to understand, be quite confused about,
as in I can't make head or tail of these directions. A version of this term dates ...
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English-Amharic Context Dictionary
V^ay •□ ilC □ □ a^^ftxC >fl>« make head or tail tt'V&'ti : +^(ah) I l(\(a>>) I can't
make head or tail of that poem. ?Y} ' 1V90 '• n«^^7i = A<*»^* s ^A^-A9° Can you
make head or tail of what he says? p«za«>- s £inyA march at the head of o°6* He
...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary
of Idioms
your head examined! not (quite) right in the head see right. not to be able to make
head or tail of (something) (in/) to be unable to understand (something): / can't
make head or tail of these instructions. off /out of one's head (inf) mad: You must ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz,
1993
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Concise Thesaurus
of Traditional English Metaphors
Make head or tail o f . . . [1651]. Make any sense of; understand at all. (Often as '
cannot make head or tail of'.) Hold up his head again [1553]. Survive a disgrace;
regain his self-respect. Run your head against. . . Come into conflict, usually with
...
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