get the drift
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The actual phrasing he used was far ruder than that – but you get the drift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
And if you don’t quite follow the lingo, you get the drift:
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
Reminiscence Hugh Jackman plays a “private investigator of the mind” who helps clients access lost memories in a dystopian future, and one day a mysterious woman walks into his office— you get the drift.
From The Verge ● Jun. 6, 2021
There’s more there, but you get the drift.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2019
Bok did not often get the drift of these discussions, but he was intensely interested in listening to the diverse views of the two theologians.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William
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