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not to know what to make of
[not to know what to make of]
{v. phr.}
To be unable to decipher; be unable to identify; not know how to decide what something really is.
/I got a mysterious letter asking me to meet Santa Claus at 6 P.M. at the supermarket. Is this a joke? I don't know what to make of it./
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates
© 2010
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