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get the drift
Idioms and Phrases
Also, catch the drift . Understand the general meaning or purport. For example, I didn't get the drift鈥攄o they want to go or not? or Over all the noise he barely managed to catch the drift of their conversation . The noun drift has been used for 鈥減urport鈥 since the early 1500s.Example Sentences
It鈥檚 not exactly secret, but it鈥檚 abstruse enough that they hope most people, who aren鈥檛 fully conversant with the complexities of the program, won鈥檛 get the drift.
And if you don鈥檛 quite follow the lingo, you get the drift:
Reminiscence Hugh Jackman plays a 鈥減rivate investigator of the mind鈥 who helps clients access lost memories in a dystopian future, and one day a mysterious woman walks into his office鈥 you get the drift.
The wintry sun, coming in at a slant through the window, gave everything a frozen, precisely detailed look; nothing seemed real, and I felt as though this were some complicated film I鈥檇 started watching in the middle and couldn鈥檛 quite get the drift of.
But you get the drift even without understanding the details: The states are saying that Google and Facebook colluded to help their own businesses at the expense of everyone else鈥檚.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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