What does "it's all Greek to me" mean?

[Tina]

Test No. incompl/elem-31 "Responses (4)", question 7

Mike: 'I assume you're following the argument, aren't you.'
Jane: '.........'

(a) No, it's all German to me.
(b) No, it's all Greek to me.
(c) No, it's all Spanish to me.
(d) No, it's all Latin to me.

Test No. incompl/elem-31 "Responses (4)", answer 7

Mike: 'I assume you're following the argument, aren't you.'
Jane: 'No, it's all Greek to me.'

Correct answer: (b) No, it's all Greek to me.

Your answer was: incorrect
Mike: 'I assume you're following the argument, aren't you.'
Jane: 'No, it's all German to me.'
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Hi Mr. Alan

What does "it's all Greek to me" mean?

Thank you
Tina

[Murle]

It means.....Being such that understanding or comprehension is difficult or impossible; incomprehensible..

[Snoopy_Blah_Blah]

Heh, I've chosen German. I understand it's an idiom here.

[saddadi_md@yahoo.com]

Hi
Can we use "it's all Greek to me" instead of I don't underrstand ?
Fereshteh

[Mwewa]

What does it mean if I say it's all German to me.

[Misskhan]

Dear Tina,Snoopy_Blah_Blah

Please check this link hope that will remove your confusion about "it is all Greek to me"

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=34351&dict=CALD

[Iram Akhter]

Hi, Actually the experession 'it's all Greek to me' is taken from shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' that means things that speaker is unable to understand.

[Funnyfunny0911]

well to me in this test there are so many new phrases

[Kitosdad]

" It's all Greek to me " to an Englander means :- I have no idea what is being discussed.

I don't know what you are talking about. I don't understand you!
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[Natasha81]

What about Double Dutch???
Thank you.

[Matthieuxmillion]

My clearest memory of this saying goes back to my sunny days of youth in California, when now and again during summer a few neighborhood girls would grab their jump-ropes, step over to the middle of the lane, and start swinging two ropes in time to a song, a simple chanty, sing-songy song, meant mainly to keep the proper rhythm of things...

But I think what you're after is this: that of it being a reference to "nonsense," most likely very close to if not the same as "gobbledygook," with the latter being far more commonly heard in the western US, my old "neck of the woods."

Nowadays I'm very likely to say something like, "Eta kak Kitaiski," or, "That's like Chinese to me," simply because "gobbledygook" probably has no equivalent in Russian. Probably.

~Matthieux

[Magi1994]

"It's all Greek to me" simply means I don't understand sth that is said or written. By the way, here in Bulgaria we also say "That's like Chinese to me." - in different languages we use different phrases. We should remember that idiom in English- just fixed expression. :!:

[Anahid]

hi there
this is somehow guessable , but you don t know which one you choose,
we in our country say, is it indean

[Mickhael]

Hello everyone,

What does 'No, it's all Greek to me.' mean? Thank you for your help.

[Viveksingh98]

Why can't it be latin because i've heard the phrase, "Its all greek and latin to me." And in the option you have both greek as well as latin so it makes even more difficult for us to choose the correct answer.

Vivek