Idioms With "Understand"

💡Can't make head(s) or tail(s) of/ out of something or somebody

💭Meaning: Cannot understand someone or something at all; cannot make any sense of someone or something.

💢Examples:

●I've been working with the new software for hours, but I still can't make heads or tails out of it.

●I can't make heads or tails of that new guy in accounting. Sometimes, he's really friendly, and then other times he acts like he's never met me before.

●I can't make heads or tails out of these instructions on the packet.

●I couldn't make heads or tails of the damn film.

💡 All Greek

💭Meaning: a way of saying that you do not understand something that is said or written due to its complexity.

💢Examples:

●My teacher was explaining a complicated math problem to the classroom, but I just didn't get what she was saying, it was all Greek to me.

●Don't try to explain the technicalities of how this machine works; it would be all Greek to me.

●He tried to explain the rules of the game to me, but it was all Greek to me.

💡Wrap/ get your head around something

💭Meaning: to understand something, especially something strange or out of the ordinary; to accept something that one does not particularly want to accept.

💢Examples:

●I find it hard to get my mind around such complex issues.

●Kate is willing to pay full price for an expensive handbag, but I just can't wrap my head around that.

●Sam tries to wrap her head around snow and freezing temperatures, but she's always lived in Florida, so real winter is not something she has experienced.