I was reading R.Jordan's "The Wheel of Time". I've faced the following sentence: "This time I can't make up or down out of any of it". I can't understand it.
Some previous sentences to make it clearer:
She shook her head. "The strongest images around the gleeman are a man — not him — juggling fire, and the White Tower, and that doesn't make any sense at all for a man. The strongest things I see about the big, curly-haired fellow are a wolf, and a broken crown, and trees flowering all around him. And the other one — a red eagle, an eye on a balance scale, a dagger with a ruby, a horn, and a laughing face. There are other things, but you see what I mean.
This time I can't make up or down out of any of it." She waited then, still grinning, until he finally cleared his throat and asked.
Best Answer
It's an idiom to mean "I can't understand any of it".
The more common variation is "I can't make heads or tails out of it", which you can read a bit about here.