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• I tried reading the instructions, but it’s all Greek to me.
• but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
• During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns. For my part, ’twas all Hebrew-Greek to me, the devil a word I could pick out on’t;
• "Well," said Alfred, "it may be a letter, but I confess it is all Greek to me.
• I ran after him, and received an order to go aloft and “slush down the main-top mast.” This was all Greek to me, and after receiving the order, I stood staring about me, wondering what it was that was to be done.
• "Look here, Mr. Count," he said; "I am only a rough Englishman, and a lot of what you have been saying about mission and that sort of thing is just so much Greek to me."
• "It’s more like some firm’s paper. All this printed stuff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me."
• A Parsi lawyer was examining a witness and asking him question regarding credit and debit entries in account books. It was all Greek to me.
• Cavanaugh explained the network-affiliate relationship, which of course was all Greek to me and remained so even after his explanation.
• [...]it was expected of me, or it was considered an honor, to lecture on seventeenth-century philosophy: Descartes (which was all Greek to me), Descartes to Spinoza.