get the drift
Example Sentences
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The strapped family eking out an existence on $500,000 featured in one such piece had fully-funded retirement and college plans, payments on two luxury cars, “date nights” every other week ... you get the drift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
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
You get the drift that she's as vulnerable as a claymore, and sharp with it too.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2016
One did not have to be a German linguist to get the drift of his remarks.
From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Albert Rhys Williams
