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

In this way we carried on quite a long conversation, I imitating, so far as I was able, her own charming "sweet," and she replying in varied utterances, which, alas! were Greek to me.

From Little Brothers of the Air by Miller, Olive Thorne