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
I’m not sure what kind of box, but I get the drift.
From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018
She began to get the drift of the questions—which Pancrazio answered with reserve.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
