Etymology:
- First quoted as “it was Greek to me” in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, maybe translated from a Medieval Latin sentence.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
Additional definitions for 'it's all greek to me':
it's all greek to me | I don’t understand any of it; it makes no sense.. |
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