get the drift
Example Sentences
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The strapped family eking out an existence on $500,000 featured in one such piece had fully-funded retirement and college plans, payments on two luxury cars, “date nights” every other week ... you get the drift.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
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
Bok did not often get the drift of these discussions, but he was intensely interested in listening to the diverse views of the two theologians.
From The Americanization of Edward Bok : the autobiography of a Dutch boy fifty years after by Bok, Edward William
