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make head or tail of

verb

  1. (can't/cannot make head or tail of) To understand even minimally.

    "He was unable to make head or tail of some of the pattern-solving puzzles in the IQ test."

  2. To determine to be good or bad.

Antonymsmake head nor tail of, make neither head nor tail of

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