get hold of

idiom

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

Dewsbury-Hall got behind Conor Bradley in first-half stoppage time and picked out Gueye, who could not quite get hold of his shot. —Oliver Kay, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025

Start charging the parents as accessories to these crimes, if their child gets hold of the parent’s gun, or guns, and commits one of these horrible crimes. —Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2025

Lionsgate chief Jon Feltheimer has just sent an internal memo that Deadline got hold of. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025

But there's always a chance that some idiots somewhere will get hold of this information a few months from now and start making noise about it. —Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for get hold of

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