COME TO GRIPS WITH Definition & Meaning

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come to grips with

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Idioms and Phrases

Confront squarely, deal decisively with, as in Her stories help the children come to grips with upsetting events . This term, sometimes put as get to grips with , employs grip in the sense of a “tight hold.” [Mid-1900s]

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Palmer is only starting to come to grips with that.

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Previously unseen bodycam footage taken after the collapse shows first responders and officials struggling to come to grips with the enormity of what they faced in the confusing hours after the crash.

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“We are considering abduction or trafficking. That’s something the family had to come to grips with over the past couple of weeks, but that doesn’t mean we’re losing hope or giving up.”

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Democrats are already engaged in considerable soul-searching, as they come to grips with an election defeat that has delivered the White House, the Senate and, perhaps, the House of Representatives to Republican control.

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The next day, the shellshocked parents struggled to come to grips with the financial toll of the incident and the catastrophic sentimental loss.

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