| 词汇 | get a handle on something |
| 释义 | Idiom get a handle on something Theme: UNDERSTANDING to find a way to understand something; to find an aid to understanding something.Let me try to get a handle on this.You can't seem to get a handle on what I'm saying.Now that I have a handle on the concept, I can begin to understand it. Idiom get a handle on somethingget a handle on (something) informal to find a way to understand a situation in order to control it.We need to get a better handle on the effects of climate change. get a handle on (something)To have a firm, clear understanding or determination of something. Go down to the circuit breaker and see if you can get a handle on what's causing the power outages. I'd gotten a pretty good handle on the concept after spending an hour with the tutor. get a handle on somethingINFORMALCOMMON If you get a handle on a subject or problem, you understand it and know how to deal with it. When you have got a handle on your anxiety you can begin to control it. Note: You can also say that someone has a handle on a subject or problem to mean that they understand it and know how to deal with it. We don't really have a handle on why some people survive for longer periods than others. get/have a handle on somebody/something(informal) become/be familiar with and so understand somebody/something: I can’t really get a handle on the situation here. What’s happening?get a handle on something, toTo succeed in dealing with a difficult problem. Dating from the mid-twentieth century, this slangy Americanism alludes to coping with a cumbersome object by attaching a handle to it. However, “handle” has been used both figuratively and literally in several ways for many years. “Most things have two Handles; and a wise Man takes hold of the best,” wrote Thomas Fuller in Gnomologia (1732). Further, “handle” has been a colloquialism for a title, and by extension a name, since about 1800. The current saying, on its way to becoming a cliché, thus can allude either to getting a secure hold on a slippery problem, or to identifying it correctly by naming it. A synonym for the former sense is get a grip on something, meaning to take a firm hold on it. See also get a grip. |
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