Greek to someone

Greek to someone
n. something incomprehensible to someone; something as mysterious as Greek writing.
I don’t understand this. It’s all Greek to me.
She said it was Greek to her, and that it made no sense at all.

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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