get one's hands on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To catch.
Example Sentences
- "If you can get your hands on the right ingredients, it's an easy recipe."
- "I'd have smoked Silk Cuts if I could get my hands on them more often, but they're imports and cost even more than domestics, which were outrageously priced even four years minus one day ago, and even from the discount cigarette store, where I was already spending a dollar less per deck than I would have if I'd bought cigarettes from the gas stations or convenience stores."
- "With my CD and pager in the pocket of my new Inspector Gadget coat, I wandered the shop floor, picking up and sampling the tester pots of pretty much every product I could get my hands on."
- "Decisively, there was the prospect of getting my hands on a slice of that petroleum fund."
- "Now Lloyd wanted badly to get his hands on him."
- "That's why he wants to get his hands on Noie Barnum."