feel for

This time together, Stubb later recalled, allowed the two men to get a feel for one another.

From his teenage years, he’s shown a preternatural feel for the game, a singular ability to dictate action and flow.

A trust officer or someone in a fiduciary role would have a better feel for managing a client’s assets.

“I feel for that team in the other locker room.”

Every British mystery lives and dies on feel — feel for the culture, its jokes, its food, its people.