Greek to me, it's

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Also, it's all Greek to me . It is beyond my comprehension, as in This new computer program is all Greek to me . This expression was coined by Shakespeare, who used it literally in Julius Caesar (1:2), where Casca says of a speech by Seneca, deliberately given in Greek so that some would not understand it, “For mine own part, it was Greek to me.” It soon was transferred to anything unintelligible.

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