See it's all Greek to me on Wiktionary
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Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the fifth:", "text": "During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns. For my part, ’twas all Hebrew-Greek to me, the devil a word I could pick out on’t;", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1844, [Frederick] Marryat, chapter XI, in The Settlers in Canada. […], volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, pages 181–182:", "text": "\"Well,\" said Alfred, \"it may be a letter, but I confess it is all Greek to me. I certainly do not see why you wish to keep it a secret. Tell me.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1849, Herman Melville, “He is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-pen, and Slushing Down the Top-mast”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 45:", "text": "I ran after him, and received an order to go aloft and “slush down the main-top mast.” This was all Greek to me, and after receiving the order, I stood staring about me, wondering what it was that was to be done.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1904, George M. Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw:", "text": "“Look here, Mr. Count,” he said; “I am only a rough Englishman, and a lot of what you have been saying about mission and that sort of thing is just so much Greek to me.”", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC:", "text": "“It's more like some firm's paper. All this printed stuff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me.”", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter VIII, in Mahadev Haribhai Desai and Pyarelal Nair, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume II, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:", "text": "A Parsi lawyer was examining a witness and asking him question regarding credit and debit entries in account books. It was all Greek to me.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1965, Harry Ray Bannister, The Education of a Broadcaster, page 16:", "text": "Cavanaugh explained the network-affiliate relationship, which of course was all Greek to me and remained so even after his explanation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2004, Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul, page 99:", "text": "[…]it was expected of me, or it was considered an honor, to lecture on seventeenth-century philosophy: Descartes (which was all Greek to me), Descartes to Spinoza.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "I don't understand any of it; it makes no sense." ], "id": "en-it's_all_Greek_to_me-en-phrase-n6hS~wrW", "links": [ [ "understand", "understand" ], [ "makes no sense", "make sense" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) I don't understand any of it; it makes no sense." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "it's all Chinese to me" }, { "alt": "it", "word": "(I can’t) make head or tail of" }, { "word": "double Dutch" }, { "word": "it's Greek to me" }, { "word": "that's Greek to me" }, { "word": "that's all Greek to me" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "translations": [ { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "note": "يَتَحَدَّثْ بِٱللُّغَة ٱلصِّينِيَّة (yataḥaddaṯ bi-l-luḡa(t) ṣ-ṣīniyya, literally “speaking in Chinese”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "note": "դա ինձ համար չինարեն է (da inj hamar čʻinaren ē, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "note": "դրանից բան չեմ հասկանում (dranicʻ ban čʻem haskanum, literally “I don't understand any of this”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cbk", "lang": "Chavacano", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "Aleman ese comigo" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一竅不通" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yīqiàobùtōng", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一窍不通" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一無所知" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yīwúsuǒzhī", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一无所知" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "note": "完全不懂 (wánquán bùdǒng, literally “not understand at all”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Kànqǐlái xiàng tiān shū", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "看起来像天书" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Zhè shì guǐhuàfú ma", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "这是鬼画符吗" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Tīngqǐlái xiàng niǎoyǔ", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "听起来像鸟语" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "note": "火星文 (Huǒxīng wén, literally “Martian language”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "to je pro mě španělská vesnice" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "španělská vesnice" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "rent volapyk" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er græsk for mig" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "en by i Rusland" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "dat is Chinees voor mij" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "word": "ik versta er geen bal van" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ĝi estas por mi volapukaĵo" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "se on minulle täyttä hepreaa" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du chinois" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est de l’hébreu" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du russe" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du javanais" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "note": "ჩინურია ჩემთვის (činuria čemtvis, literally “Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "das sind für mich böhmische Dörfer" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "das ist Chinesisch für mich (alles)" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "jemand spricht spanisch" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "είναι κινέζικα για μένα (eínai kinézika gia ména, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "δεν καταλαβαίνω γρι (den katalavaíno gri, literally “I don't even understand a bit”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα (aftá mou faínontai kinézika, literally “it seems Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "gu", "lang": "Gujarati", "note": "શું હું ફારસી બોલું છું (śũ hũ phārsī bolũ chũ, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "note": "זֶה סִינִית בִּשְׁבִילִי (ze sínit bishvilí, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "note": "क्या मैं फ़ारसी बोल रहा हूँ (kyā ma͠i fārsī bol rahā hū̃, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ez nekem kínai" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ez nekem kínaiul van" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "þetta er hebreska fyrir mér" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "itu bahasa planet" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bahasa planet" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bahasa dewa" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "per me è arabo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "non ci capisco un tubo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "è ostrogoto" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "珍紛漢だ" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "珍糞漢だ" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "note": "陳奮翰だ (ちんぷんかんだ, chinpunkan da, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "note": "珍紛漢紛だ (ちんぷんかんぷんだ, chinpunkanpun da, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "note": "ខ្ញុំមិនយល់សោះ (khnhommĭnyôlsaŏh, literally “I don't understand”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "note": "횡설수설이다 (hoengseolsuseorida, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "graecum est; nōn legitur" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "graeca sunt; nōn leguntur" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "note": "шпанско село (špansko selo, literally “Spanish village”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er helt gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er heilt gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er gresk for meg" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "to dla mnie chińszczyzna" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "para mim você está falando grego" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "isto é chinês para mim" }, { "code": "pa", "lang": "Punjabi", "note": "ਕੀ ਮੈਂ ਫਾਰਸੀ ਬੋਲਦਾ ਪਿਆਂ (kī maĩ phārsī boldā piā̃, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "e chineză pentru mine" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "note": "китайская грамота (kitajskaja gramota, literally “Chinese writing”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "note": "по-евре́йски (po-jevréjski, literally “in Jewish, in a Jewish way”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "attributive" ] }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "шпа̑нска сѐла" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "špȃnska sèla" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "me suena a chino" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "esto es chino para mí" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "no entiendo ni jota" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "no entiendo ni papa" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det är rena grekiskan" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "parang intsik" }, { "code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "note": "เป็นสิ่งที่ฉันไม่เข้าใจ (bpen sìng têe chăn mâi kâo jai, literally “it's something I don't understand”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "note": "ฉันไม่เข้าใจอะไรเลย (chǎn mâi kâo jai à rai ləəi, literally “I don't understand anything”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bir şey anladıysam Arap olayım" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "note": "Це для мене китайська грамота (Ce dlja mene kytajsʹka hramota, literally “That's Chinese writing to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "nói tiếng Miên" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "nói tiếng Lào" } ], "wikipedia": [ "Julius Caesar (play)", "Shakespeare", "it's all Greek to me" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɪts ˌɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː/" }, { "audio": "en-us-it's all Greek to me.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg" }, { "audio": "en-au-it's all Greek to me.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg" } ], "word": "it's all Greek to me" }
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[…], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume II, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the fifth:", "text": "During the processions they trilled and quavered most melodiously betwixt their teeth I do not know what antiphones, or chantings, by turns. For my part, ’twas all Hebrew-Greek to me, the devil a word I could pick out on’t;", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1844, [Frederick] Marryat, chapter XI, in The Settlers in Canada. […], volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, pages 181–182:", "text": "\"Well,\" said Alfred, \"it may be a letter, but I confess it is all Greek to me. I certainly do not see why you wish to keep it a secret. Tell me.\"", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1849, Herman Melville, “He is Initiated in the Business of Cleaning Out the Pig-pen, and Slushing Down the Top-mast”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 45:", "text": "I ran after him, and received an order to go aloft and “slush down the main-top mast.” This was all Greek to me, and after receiving the order, I stood staring about me, wondering what it was that was to be done.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1904, George M. Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw:", "text": "“Look here, Mr. Count,” he said; “I am only a rough Englishman, and a lot of what you have been saying about mission and that sort of thing is just so much Greek to me.”", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC:", "text": "“It's more like some firm's paper. All this printed stuff at the top. Drachenflieger. Drachenballons. Ballonstoffe. Kugelballons. Greek to me.”", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter VIII, in Mahadev Haribhai Desai and Pyarelal Nair, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume II, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Press, →OCLC:", "text": "A Parsi lawyer was examining a witness and asking him question regarding credit and debit entries in account books. It was all Greek to me.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1965, Harry Ray Bannister, The Education of a Broadcaster, page 16:", "text": "Cavanaugh explained the network-affiliate relationship, which of course was all Greek to me and remained so even after his explanation.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2004, Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul, page 99:", "text": "[…]it was expected of me, or it was considered an honor, to lecture on seventeenth-century philosophy: Descartes (which was all Greek to me), Descartes to Spinoza.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "I don't understand any of it; it makes no sense." ], "links": [ [ "understand", "understand" ], [ "makes no sense", "make sense" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(idiomatic) I don't understand any of it; it makes no sense." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "it's all Chinese to me" }, { "alt": "it", "word": "(I can’t) make head or tail of" }, { "word": "double Dutch" } ], "tags": [ "idiomatic" ], "wikipedia": [ "Julius Caesar (play)", "Shakespeare", "it's all Greek to me" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ɪts ˌɔːl ˈɡɹiːk tə ˌmiː/" }, { "audio": "en-us-it's all Greek to me.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/99/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/En-us-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg" }, { "audio": "en-au-it's all Greek to me.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f2/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/En-au-it%27s_all_Greek_to_me.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "it's Greek to me" }, { "word": "that's Greek to me" }, { "word": "that's all Greek to me" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "ar", "lang": "Arabic", "note": "يَتَحَدَّثْ بِٱللُّغَة ٱلصِّينِيَّة (yataḥaddaṯ bi-l-luḡa(t) ṣ-ṣīniyya, literally “speaking in Chinese”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "note": "դա ինձ համար չինարեն է (da inj hamar čʻinaren ē, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hy", "lang": "Armenian", "note": "դրանից բան չեմ հասկանում (dranicʻ ban čʻem haskanum, literally “I don't understand any of this”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cbk", "lang": "Chavacano", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "Aleman ese comigo" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一竅不通" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yīqiàobùtōng", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一窍不通" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一無所知" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "yīwúsuǒzhī", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "一无所知" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "note": "完全不懂 (wánquán bùdǒng, literally “not understand at all”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Kànqǐlái xiàng tiān shū", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "看起来像天书" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Zhè shì guǐhuàfú ma", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "这是鬼画符吗" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "roman": "Tīngqǐlái xiàng niǎoyǔ", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "听起来像鸟语" }, { "code": "cmn", "lang": "Chinese Mandarin", "note": "火星文 (Huǒxīng wén, literally “Martian language”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "to je pro mě španělská vesnice" }, { "code": "cs", "lang": "Czech", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "španělská vesnice" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "rent volapyk" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er græsk for mig" }, { "code": "da", "lang": "Danish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "en by i Rusland" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "dat is Chinees voor mij" }, { "code": "nl", "lang": "Dutch", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "colloquial" ], "word": "ik versta er geen bal van" }, { "code": "eo", "lang": "Esperanto", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ĝi estas por mi volapukaĵo" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "se on minulle täyttä hepreaa" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du chinois" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est de l’hébreu" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du russe" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "c’est du javanais" }, { "code": "ka", "lang": "Georgian", "note": "ჩინურია ჩემთვის (činuria čemtvis, literally “Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "das sind für mich böhmische Dörfer" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "das ist Chinesisch für mich (alles)" }, { "code": "de", "lang": "German", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "jemand spricht spanisch" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "είναι κινέζικα για μένα (eínai kinézika gia ména, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "δεν καταλαβαίνω γρι (den katalavaíno gri, literally “I don't even understand a bit”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "el", "lang": "Greek", "note": "αυτά μου φαίνονται κινέζικα (aftá mou faínontai kinézika, literally “it seems Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "gu", "lang": "Gujarati", "note": "શું હું ફારસી બોલું છું (śũ hũ phārsī bolũ chũ, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "he", "lang": "Hebrew", "note": "זֶה סִינִית בִּשְׁבִילִי (ze sínit bishvilí, literally “it's Chinese to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hi", "lang": "Hindi", "note": "क्या मैं फ़ारसी बोल रहा हूँ (kyā ma͠i fārsī bol rahā hū̃, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ez nekem kínai" }, { "code": "hu", "lang": "Hungarian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "ez nekem kínaiul van" }, { "code": "is", "lang": "Icelandic", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "þetta er hebreska fyrir mér" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "itu bahasa planet" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bahasa planet" }, { "code": "id", "lang": "Indonesian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bahasa dewa" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "per me è arabo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "non ci capisco un tubo" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "è ostrogoto" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "珍紛漢だ" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "珍糞漢だ" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "note": "陳奮翰だ (ちんぷんかんだ, chinpunkan da, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ja", "lang": "Japanese", "note": "珍紛漢紛だ (ちんぷんかんぷんだ, chinpunkanpun da, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "km", "lang": "Khmer", "note": "ខ្ញុំមិនយល់សោះ (khnhommĭnyôlsaŏh, literally “I don't understand”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ko", "lang": "Korean", "note": "횡설수설이다 (hoengseolsuseorida, literally “it's gibberish”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "graecum est; nōn legitur" }, { "code": "la", "lang": "Latin", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "graeca sunt; nōn leguntur" }, { "code": "mk", "lang": "Macedonian", "note": "шпанско село (špansko selo, literally “Spanish village”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er helt gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nb", "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er heilt gresk for meg" }, { "code": "nn", "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det er gresk for meg" }, { "code": "pl", "lang": "Polish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "to dla mnie chińszczyzna" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "para mim você está falando grego" }, { "code": "pt", "lang": "Portuguese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "isto é chinês para mim" }, { "code": "pa", "lang": "Punjabi", "note": "ਕੀ ਮੈਂ ਫਾਰਸੀ ਬੋਲਦਾ ਪਿਆਂ (kī maĩ phārsī boldā piā̃, literally “am I speaking Persian?”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ro", "lang": "Romanian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "e chineză pentru mine" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "note": "китайская грамота (kitajskaja gramota, literally “Chinese writing”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "ru", "lang": "Russian", "note": "по-евре́йски (po-jevréjski, literally “in Jewish, in a Jewish way”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "attributive" ] }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "Cyrillic" ], "word": "шпа̑нска сѐла" }, { "code": "sh", "lang": "Serbo-Croatian", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "tags": [ "Roman" ], "word": "špȃnska sèla" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "me suena a chino" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "esto es chino para mí" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "no entiendo ni jota" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "no entiendo ni papa" }, { "code": "sv", "lang": "Swedish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "det är rena grekiskan" }, { "code": "tl", "lang": "Tagalog", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "parang intsik" }, { "code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "note": "เป็นสิ่งที่ฉันไม่เข้าใจ (bpen sìng têe chăn mâi kâo jai, literally “it's something I don't understand”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "th", "lang": "Thai", "note": "ฉันไม่เข้าใจอะไรเลย (chǎn mâi kâo jai à rai ləəi, literally “I don't understand anything”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "tr", "lang": "Turkish", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "bir şey anladıysam Arap olayım" }, { "code": "uk", "lang": "Ukrainian", "note": "Це для мене китайська грамота (Ce dlja mene kytajsʹka hramota, literally “That's Chinese writing to me”)", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "nói tiếng Miên" }, { "code": "vi", "lang": "Vietnamese", "sense": "I don’t understand any of it", "word": "nói tiếng Lào" } ], "word": "it's all Greek to me" }
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