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Get to grips with

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To deal (with something) decisively, or to confront (it) head on. UK, idiomatic
  2. 2
    To battle (with something). UK, idiomatic

    "Estonia were struggling to get to grips with the game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties."

  3. 3
    To gain an understanding (of something). UK, idiomatic

    "[…] autism is the integral explanation of the phenomenon Kafka in all its expressions, and autism can explain the mystery of Kafka like no other of the interpretations proposed by literary scholars and critics in the history of Kafka research. […] The search by Kafka in his writing was for the unknown perspective in his fellow human beings which could put him at ease but he never managed to find it. He intuited this other state of mind and his writing is a testament of his search for this alien state of mind or self-consciousness which he tried to describe via parables, animal stories, aphorisms and images. His problem was that he could not get to grips with reality, more specifically his own reality, because he could not live with it."

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