it's all greek to me!

  • 21Greek — noun 1》 a native or national of Greece, or a person of Greek descent.     ↘a Greek speaking native of one of the ancient city states of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. 2》 the ancient or modern Indo European language of Greece. 3》 US a… …

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  • 22Greek — Greek1 [ grik ] noun 1. ) uncount the language that people speak in modern Greece a ) the language that was spoken in Ancient Greece: students of Latin and Greek 2. ) count a person from Greece it s (all) Greek to me SPOKEN used for saying that… …

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  • 23Greek — I UK [ɡriːk] / US [ɡrɪk] noun Word forms Greek : singular Greek plural Greeks 1) a) [uncountable] the language that people speak in modern Greece b) the language that was spoken in ancient Greece students of Latin and Greek 2) [countable] a… …

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  • 24Greek to someone — n. something incomprehensible to someone; something as mysterious as Greek writing. □ I don’t understand this. It’s all Greek to me. □ She said it was Greek to her, and that it made no sense at all …

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  • 25Greek — n. (colloq.) it was (all) Greek to me ( it was incomprehensible to me ) * * * (colloq.) it was (all) Greek to me ( it was incomprehensible to me ) …

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  • 26Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem —       autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, Eastern Orthodox patriarchate, fourth in honorific seniority after the churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, and Antioch. Since the beginning of Muslim rule in the 7th century, it has been… …

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  • 27Greek — Greek1 [gri:k] adj relating to Greece, its people, or its language ▪ Greek yoghurt Greek 2 Greek2 n [Date: 800 900; : Latin; Origin: Graecus, from Greek Graikos] 1.) someone from Greece 2.) [U] the l …

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  • 28Greek — 1 noun 1 (U) the language of modern or ancient Greece 2 (C) someone from Greece 3 (C) AmE a member of a sorority or fraternity (2) at an American college or university 4 it s all Greek to me informal used to say that you cannot understand… …

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  • 29greek — 1. noun a) Nonsense writing or talk; gibberish b) Anal sex. 2. verb a) to display a placeholder instead of text, especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read b) to fill a template with nonsense text… …

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  • 30greek to me —    If you don t understand something, it s all Greek to you.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

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