heads or tails
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He wanted to take a crack at writing like artists like Billie Eilish, but he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Measuring the wave function, however, causes it to collapse, mathematically speaking, such that the system in our example shows up as either heads or tails.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
There are only two choices: heads or tails.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
Slivers of gray fish pickled in white glue, smoked fish with yellow eyes that bulged, raw red fish without heads or tails.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
