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get the message

Idioms  

  1. Also, get the picture. Understand or infer the real import or substance of something. For example, He gestured to the waiter, who got the message and brought the bill, or Kate got the picture and decided to keep her mouth shut about the error. [Mid-1900s] Also see get it.

Example Sentences

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“I feel like we have to continue to get the message out that San Francisco is on the rise, and not everybody has heard it,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Following that, others get the message and are afraid to reveal information the administration wants to hide.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2025

They now have just days to get the message out.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2024

"We need to get the message out that a March 2025 deadline has to be set," he wrote.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

They want everybody watching to get the message: “Old Charley Burns did it. Now Old Charley’s gone.”

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

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