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

But I couldn’t get a fix on his presence — mainly because there was no presence.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2019

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

But it did help me get a fix on my own experience as I was finally starting to recover and, in that regard, changed my life.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2017

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