a handle on sth
*a handle on something
Fig. a means of understanding something; an aid to understanding something. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give someone ~.)
Let me try to get a handle on this.
Now that I have a handle on the concept, I can begin to understand it.
热门单词
- add fuel to the flame
- add sth into sth
- A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
- a (good) working over
- A leopard cannot change his spots.
- a little steep
- ally
- aloof from so or sth
- altogether
- amiss
- amount
- amount to the same thing
- an about-face (on so or sth)
- angle for sth
- an inkling (about so or sth)
- An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper.
- an open secret
- a party to sth
- ape
- a power play
- approval
