Greek to me

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“He presses the point and asks if she’ll ‘wed’ him, at which point she pretends not to understand him at all: ‘Tis Greek to me, my Lord’ is her final reply.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2016

So many engravings looked like so much Greek to me, so to speak.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2015

Ruby remained little more than Greek to me.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2012

Now when Brendon talks about what he’s learning, like high-yield bond spreads or what contango means for commodity prices, it’s still Greek to me, just a different kind.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2010

The Latin, as I heard it sung there, was pronounced so differently from what I had been taught at school, that it was all Greek to me.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard