heads or tails
Example Sentences
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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
If you can make heads or tails out what he's trying to say there, good luck to you.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023
There are only two choices: heads or tails.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
Each of them received 572 votes, according to local reports, and the two agreed that one would flip a coin while the other chooses heads or tails to decide the winner.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2022
“I can’t make heads or tails of this place.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
