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get a handle on

verb

Definitions

  1. To build or acquire a basic level of understanding or control.

    • After a week of poring over the manuals, I am just beginning to get a handle on the software.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for get a handle on. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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