get hold of

phrase

variants or chiefly US get a hold of

1

: to get possession of (something) : to succeed in getting (something)

Somehow she managed to get hold of the band's new album before it came out.

Where did you get hold of that idea?

2

: to find and talk to (someone) : to contact (someone)

I need to talk to my lawyer, but I haven't been able to get hold of him.

I've been trying to get a hold of my lawyer for days.

Examples of get hold of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So that the satellite could get hold of her when the bursts came. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026

Officials in France are just beginning to get hold of the toll of the June heat wave. — Scott Simon, NPR, 8 Aug. 2026

The goal is to encrypt a message so that someone who gets hold of it cannot split it into two usable versions that both reveal the message once the decrypting key is known. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 31 July 2026

An officer looked in a window and saw blood on the floor but was unable to get hold of Gregory Dolnics. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 29 July 2026

Rhymes for get hold of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove