get a handle on

1. see under get a fix on.

Example Sentences

The mayor of London has been told to "get a handle" on the capital's housing crisis as progress on building affordable homes continued to stagnate.

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Highway 395 in Mono County was closed from Tom’s Place to Benton Crossing Road as fire crews worked to get a handle on the blaze, according to the California Department of Transportation.

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On the second floor, in the emergency response center, the plant superintendent, Masao Yoshida, was trying to get a handle on the situation.

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But the real tell is Wever, whose performance as Christy’s mother is so outrageous and pitch-perfect that it took me a moment to get a handle on it.

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Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, called Nvidia's $5tn valuation "a sum so vast the human brain can't properly get a handle on it".

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