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Definition of Get the hang

1. Verb. Be or become completely proficient or skilled in. "She mastered Japanese in less than two years"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Get The Hang

Literary usage of Get the hang

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis (1864)
"Jhe Major has an Attack of the Ague and Fever—Begins to get the Hang of Ma'ters at ... I begin to get the hang of matters here now, and the way Linkin and ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"To get the hang of a thing is to understand its " modus operandi." 1845 After they have acquired the hang of the tools for themselves. ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"He had been in pursuit of the science of money-making all his life, but could never get the hang of it. —Pickings from the Picayune. ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"2. Be freed from, be relieved from, get dear of, get quit of. get the hang Of. Understand, comprehend, get acquainted with, get accustomed to, ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"ТО get the bulge on one, to get the dead-wood on one, to get the drop, to get the floor, to get the grand bounce, to get the hang of, to get the head, ..."

6. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"In the latter he says: I am trying to get the hang of this new-fangled writing-machine, but am not making a shining success of it. ..."

7. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"To get the HANG of a thing is to get the knack. To HAPPEN iN = to come in accidentally. HARD RUN = to be hard pressed. To HAVE A SAY=to express an opinion. ..."

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