heads or tails
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He wanted to take a crack at writing like artists like Billie Eilish, but he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
There are only two choices: heads or tails.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
A roofer comes and can't make heads or tails out of the containers with the cuttings.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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