get a fix on
Example Sentences
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“The more he tried to get a fix on the fact of being Cass here,” Goldstein writes, “the more the whole idea of it just got away from him.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2019
They can’t get a fix on her appendix.
From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2018
Cuban officials weren’t so sure about the storm’s location, and decided to get a fix on it.
From National Geographic • Sep. 8, 2017
He can't quite get a fix on his romantic delirium, and he kind of likes the idea that he can't explain his bliss.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2015
We won’t go terribly far–just to the edge of our own solar system–but we need to get a fix on how big a place space is and what a small part of it we occupy.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
