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Get the hang   /gɛt ðə hæŋ/   Listen
Get the hang

verb
1.
Be or become completely proficient or skilled in.  Synonym: master.






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"Get the hang" Quotes from Famous Books



... paper by mentioning it. By the time I was washed and shaved and dressed, Mr. Stevens had been to his office, transacted all the business necessary for the day, and was ready to see sights again. "It doesn't take long to do things when you get the hang of hustling," he said, referring to his own transactions; "come along. We've got a couple of hours before lunch, and then we'll take the 2.14 train down to my farm." So we shot downstairs about forty flights to the second ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes

... written any plays yet, but I'm going to. That's why I want to sort of begin here and get the hang of this ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... laid down his shovel, lifted the flap of his sou'wester, and scratched the back of his head slowly. "Let me get the hang o' ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... that campaign fund contribution that had been stolen. Question: Had Jimmy Stiles been forced by Nickleby to——? No, that was not tenable because Nickleby would not be trying to steal from himself. Well, he'd soon get the hang of things when he went to see Stiles. It was going to be an interesting little pow-wow ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse

... done me good, as you always do. Now, I am going to re-study some of my old parts, just to get the hang ...
— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... here it may be interesting to our own people to know some of the problems which confronted the Supreme Governor. The Japanese question was the first. General Rosanoff was Bolderoff's Chief of Staff, and it was important to the Supreme Governor that he should get the hang of outstanding matters and also make himself fairly acquainted with the policy of the deposed Directorate. He interviewed General Rosanoff and the Staff generally, and discovered that after the fall of Samara the Bolshevik army ...
— With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia • John Ward

... that; you have got the colour sense, even though you don't seem to get the hang of perspective," said Rumple, looking visibly cheered. "When I begin to sell my poems you shall have the money to have lessons in art, old girl, for I fancy you ...
— The Adventurous Seven - Their Hazardous Undertaking • Bessie Marchant



Words linked to "Get the hang" :   know, learn, practice, acquire, exercise, larn, practise, drill



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