get the drift
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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
I’m not sure what kind of box, but I get the drift.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 15, 2018
Andrew Jackson stared at him silently for a moment, as if he did not get the drift of the words.
From Round Anvil Rock A Romance by Banks, Nancy Huston
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