get the drift
Example Sentences
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And if you don’t quite follow the lingo, you get the drift:
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
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
I'm sorry, gentlemen," he said, "I don't quite get the drift of all this.
From Direct Wire by Clee Garson
