get a grip
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To grip, as in: to take hold of, as with the hand.
verb
To attain the understanding of a complex topic.
Example Sentences
- "But the bannock ran […] down the road to the next house, and in and snug by the fireside. The folk were just sitting down to their soup, and the goodwife scraping the pot. "Look," quoth she, "there's a wee bannock come in to warm itself at our fireside." "Shut the door," quoth the goodman, "and we'll try to get a grip of it." When the bannock heard that, it ran out of the house and they after it with their spoons, […]"
- "I attempted to get a grip in the snow with my frozen fingers, to stem myself with my heels, but with no success, […]"
- "Thereupon the conger, taking the offensive, made a grab at him; it tried to seize him again […], but in both cases it failed to get a grip of the slippery skin, and the next minute the otter was at the surface."
- "Heber, using the argument which he felt would be of most avail, tried to frighten the man into soberness by picturing his wife's wrath; whereupon the adroit scamp replied that he knew what that would be, and had taken the precaution to have his hair cut short, so that she could not get a grip on it."
- "But here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage. I remember saying to him: "Look here, if everyone acted like you, the world couldn't go on." "That's a damned silly thing to say. Everyone doesn't want to act like me. The great majority are perfectly content to do the ordinary thing.""
- ""The Government needs to get a grip on the cost of electricity," she noted."