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- 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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I'm all right, Jackit takes all kinds to make a worldit's all Chinese to mein all one's gloryjack of all trades, master of none!let it all hang out!i am all earshold all the aceslife is not all beer and skittlesknow-it-allit's not all it's cracked up to bejack of all tradesJack-of-All-Tradeslaughing all the way to the bank
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