Meaning: make heads nor tails of this?

[K1ngk0ng]

Dear respected teachers,

Today I've faced with an idiomatic expression that I have looked up in the Cambridge Dictionary as in heads and tails.

I've read the explanation in there and could anyone please just advice me if it has the same meaning as "I do not care about it or It's no skin off my nose"?

I'd be grateful. KK

[Iraqi]

It simply means: " I don't understand it"

Just a small correction: You should either say: " I've faced an idiomatic expression...." or " I've been faced with...."

[K1ngk0ng]

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by 'a small correction'. If I made some mistake with my sentence, I would be forced to use another correct one, not either of the two? Could you tell me a bit more about your explanation, please? Thanks, KK

[Iraqi]

The meaning of the phrase: "couldn't make head or tail of.." is: "couldn't understand". For example: " I read a story but I couldn't make head or tail of it." This means that I couldn't understand the story.

As for the small correction, you wrote: "Today I've faced with an idiomatic expression ...". You should have written: "Today I've faced an idiomatic expression ...(without 'with')"

Regards

[Alan]

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Hi,

The expression is: cannot make head nor tail of something. This means I can't understand it at all as in: I've read that sentence again and again and I still can't make head nor tail of it.

The other expression is: It's no skin off my nose. This means it doesn't matter to me at all as in: You go ahead and waste all your money, it doesn't bother me , it's no skin off my nose.

Alan
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