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make sense

verb

  1. To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.

    "Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth."

  2. (with of) To decipher or understand.

    "Can you make sense of her handwriting?"

Synonymsadd up, make head or tail of

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