Poll: I couldn't make head ____ tail of it.
I couldn't make head ____ tail of it. |
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Votes: 520
Comments: 8
Added: November 2009
Comments:
| Secsee Devil - 11th December 2009 14:09 |
| Pretty sure you could use both yeah? |
| sara - 20th December 2009 10:15 |
| or |
| Stoilka - 22nd December 2009 08:09 |
| it's definitely OR! Make Head or tail of something is to be able to understand it |
| Linda - 24th December 2009 00:33 |
| I've only seen or heard it as plural: I couldn't make headS or tailS of it. |
| ClaretEverywhere - 15th January 2010 15:43 |
| You should really use 'nor', because it's negative, i.e. "neither one nor the other", as opposed to "either one or the other". |
| jom - 22nd January 2010 21:41 |
| it should be "nor" - because the sentence is negative. |
| Thom - 26th February 2010 04:29 |
| Quite the opposite, it should be "Heads OR Tails" instead of NOR because "I couldn't make heads nor tails" would be a double negative. |
| Grahm - 4th April 2010 22:07 |
| Grammatically, it would be "head nor tail", as in "I could make neither head nor tail of it." However, the idiom is "head or tail", `and should not be manipulated based on context. So "I couldn't make head or tail of it" is correct. |
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