Get a grip on
Also, have a grip on. Obtain mastery or control over something or someone. For example, Get a grip on yourself or the reporters will give you a hard time, or, as Arthur Conan Doyle put it in Sherlock Holmes (1894): “I have a grip on the essential facts of the case.” This expression transfers a firm physical hold to emotional or intellectual control. [ Late 1800s ]
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- Get a hand
see: give a hand , def. 2.
- Get a handle on someone
verb phrase To begin to understand someone; have a clue as to someone’s character, behavior, etc: That’s right. I can’t get a handle on him (1972+) verb phrase To find a way of coping; discover how to proceed: Sometimes I think I haven’t got a handle on things anymore/ They’ve just got to get a […]
- Get a handle on something
verb phrase To find a way of coping; discover how to proceed: Sometimes I think I haven’t got a handle on things anymore/ They’ve just got to get a handle on this thing (1972+)
- Get a head start
see: head start
- Get a hinge at
verb phrase To look at; glance at: I only write you letters instead of getting a hinge at your kisser/ a fast hinge at the sodden courtyard [1930s+; perhaps fr the action of turning the head, as if on a hinge]