Citations:Greek

English citations of Greek

1600, Thomas Dekker, Patient Grissil: A Comedy, p 17:
[...] asking for some Greek poet, to him he falls, and there he grumbles God knows what, but I'll be sworn he knows not so much as one character of the tongue. ¶ Rice. Why, then it's Greek to him.
1857, Gerald Griffin, The rivals. Tracy's ambition., page 16:
Have we ever yet found a single word of explanation necessary in all our many discourses? Have my eyes ever spoken in Greek to you, or yours to me in unintelligible Celtic?
1991 Mar, R. Silverberg with M. Maier, “The last surviving veteran of the war of San Francisco.”, in Omni, volume 13, number 6, page 56:
"Does anyone know where the Imperial Hotel is?" Blank faces stared at her. She might just as well have been speaking Greek or Arabic.
1991, Tom Schulman, What About Bob?:
BOB: "This has to be some kind of test. I know I hurt them but they have to know I didn't mean it. If it's a test... I ate a hot dog." Bob stares at the hot dog like it just spoke Greek.
2000, Francine Rivers, The Scarlet Thread, page 159:
The words might as well have been spoken in Greek for all the sense they made to her, but she knew he was speaking to his son.
2002 Sep, Jerry Oltion, “Renewable resources”, in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 122, number 9, page 74:
"Hey, is that a ZEVon?" he asked. The two guys-no, it was a guy and a girl, both thin as rails and shivering in their useless Levi jackets and baggy pants-looked up at him as if he'd just spoken Greek.
2004, Guy Kawasaki, The art of the start, page 39:
For the rest of us, the CEO might as well have been speaking in Greek.
2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
So what if the Greeks never had BMX bikes? This year's Olympic Games, which kick off August 8 in China, add high-octane competitions—BMX racing and open-water swimming—and include sports like table tennis taken to Olympian levels.