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Definition of Get to grips
1. Verb. Deal with (a problem or a subject). "I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Get To Grips
Literary usage of Get to grips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1906)
"They are anxious only to get to grips with the public enemy and to crush him
under foot in whatever way they can. Many precedents have been shattered in the ..."
2. Fighting the Slave-hunters in Central Africa: A Record of Twenty-six Years by Alfred James Swann (1910)
"... and for the third time I landed in Africa to get to grips with the Arabs, this
time through the Zambezi gateway, and as a Government official. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"They do not In themselves possess the power to obtain a decision, their real
function being to assist the Infantry to get to grips with their opponents. ..."
4. Zaire: Predicament and Prospectsby Jean-Claude Willame, Hugues Leclercq, Peter Rosenblum, Catharine Newbury by Jean-Claude Willame, Hugues Leclercq, Peter Rosenblum, Catharine Newbury (1998)
"A program along these lines would swiftly get to grips with the basic problems
and would be relatively cheap: a small, high-quality staff would suffice, ..."
5. The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation by Coningsby Dawson (1918)
"It was fine to hear them stamping their defiance; it made one want to get to
grips with his aggressors. In the brief silences one could hear our chaps ..."
6. The Glory of the Trenches: An Interpretation by Coningsby Dawson (1918)
"It was fine to hear them stamping their defiance; it made one want to get to
grips with his aggressors. In the brief silences one could hear our chaps ..."
7. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"... got to get to grips Afore we're deid, An' gin he thinks he hasna' met his
match He'll sune be wiser — Here's to mysel'! Here's to the auld Black Watch! ..."
8. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National by Norman Angell (1913)
"The second point of difference with Professor McDougal's savage is that when we
get to grips our conflict does not include the whole tribe; we do not, ..."
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