'it´s all Greek to me'
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Have you ever heard this proverb❓ Maybe, you know its meaning because your grandma has told you it so many times.
Have you ever heard this proverb❓ Maybe, you know its meaning because your grandma has told you it so many times.
If you have never heard this saying, you could get 😕 after you read it or maybe you´ve just guessed the meaning. Well, don´t be 😟, don´t 😢. Let me tell you it.
👨👩 say 'It/something is all Greek to them' to mean that they can not understand that.
OriginThe origin youto keepiously comes from the incident of Van Gogh, the painter cutting his left ear off after a series of mental illnesses. But the literary origin of the phrase is not available. Van Gogh, after cutting his ear off and rendering himself totally deaf continued to play loud music and tried to sing along too. He was always off key of course. So the expression also refers to someone who can’t sing very well.Source: theidioms.co
For example:
Antoine tried to teach me how to play a 🎮 but it is Greek to me.
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