Greek to me

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The five of us were to sail a rented boat within a loose flotilla of seven other boats to an itinerary of islands that was Greek to me: Meganisi, Kefalonia, Kalamos and, of course, Ithaca.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2019

“He presses the point and asks if she’ll ‘wed’ him, at which point she pretends not to understand him at all: ‘Tis Greek to me, my Lord’ is her final reply.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2016

Ruby remained little more than Greek to me.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2012

Now when Brendon talks about what he’s learning, like high-yield bond spreads or what contango means for commodity prices, it’s still Greek to me, just a different kind.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2010

So in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge: "this is Greek to me."

From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Black, Ebenezer Charlton