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Idioms and Phrases

Also, catch the drift . Understand the general meaning or purport. For example, I didn't get the drift—do they want to go or not? or Over all the noise he barely managed to catch the drift of their conversation . The noun drift has been used for “purport†since the early 1500s.
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And if you don’t quite follow the lingo, you get the drift:

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Reminiscence Hugh Jackman plays a “private investigator of the mind†who helps clients access lost memories in a dystopian future, and one day a mysterious woman walks into his office— you get the drift.

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The wintry sun, coming in at a slant through the window, gave everything a frozen, precisely detailed look; nothing seemed real, and I felt as though this were some complicated film I’d started watching in the middle and couldn’t quite get the drift of.

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But you get the drift even without understanding the details: The states are saying that Google and Facebook colluded to help their own businesses at the expense of everyone else’s.

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“How about national right to work? How about Davis-Bacon reform? How about ending junk lawsuits against doctors and hospitals? You get the drift,†McConnell continued.

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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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