get a handle on
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Conductors struggle to get a handle on its mysteries and intricacies.
From Los Angeles Times
"Once I get a handle on where they're coming from, I can then answer their questions," says Lorna.
From BBC
“Not that whimsy is negative, but I do feel like it doesn’t really get a handle on the substance of what I feel I’m working with, as far as the depth of the clay, the depth of the experience, of the land.”
From Los Angeles Times
“But something like the billion dollar disasters data set is key data that many people rely on across different sectors, from nonprofit organizations like ours that have used it for years and years as a communications tool, to the insurance industry that looks to that data set to try to get a handle on the scale of the losses from climate and weather-related events over time.”
From Salon
That’s something that we never used to be able to really get a handle on, but to be able to see the amount of energy and thought that people put into it is kind of amazing.
From Los Angeles Times
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