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get a line on
Idioms and Phrases
Also, have a line on . Acquire information about something or someone, come to know. For example, Sue got a line on some possible tennis partners , or The realtor has a line on a number of vacant apartments . Similarly, give someone a line on means “provide information about,” as in The librarian gave me a line on the books I would need . This idiom uses line in the sense of “a direct course.” [c. 1900] Also see get a fix on .Example Sentences
And in Texas, Mr. Kennedy will need about 81,000 people to participate in precinct conventions in order for his party to get a line on the general-election ballot.
“I think people just kept thinking about the box-office hits as if that was an easy way to get a line on predictions.”
The state is trying to get a line on where new investments in mental-health care should be made and how they can be managed.
“The coast was all blacked out so the U-boats couldn’t get a line on us,” he said.
In the vast majority of states an independent party must not only win a certain number of votes to get a line on the ballot but must nominate its own candidate.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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