get the idea
idiom
: to understand
"Yes we're late, but it was raining, then we got a flat tire …" "All right, I get the idea."
Examples of get the idea in a Sentence
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But don’t get the idea that scorpions are warm and cuddly creatures.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
The last thing the 49ers need is for Green Bay to hang around until halftime or later and then get the idea that the win over Dallas was the start of something big.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
Lots of travelers get the idea to swap snow for sand and hot chocolate for margaritas.
—Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
While the search and rescue project only officially launched in April 2021, when Kean joined the team, APOPO had been trying to get the idea off the ground for years but lacked funding and a search and rescue partner to support it.
—Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
Lots of travelers get the idea to swap snow for sand and hot chocolate for margaritas.
—Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
For weeks, the Olympic hopeful couldn’t get the idea out of her head.
—Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
Even businesspeople with such little business experience as to suggest that wholesalers should pay more will eventually get the idea.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2022
Sulzer couldn’t get the idea out of his head.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
The last thing the 49ers need is for Green Bay to hang around until halftime or later and then get the idea that the win over Dallas was the start of something big.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
Lots of travelers get the idea to swap snow for sand and hot chocolate for margaritas.
—Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
While the search and rescue project only officially launched in April 2021, when Kean joined the team, APOPO had been trying to get the idea off the ground for years but lacked funding and a search and rescue partner to support it.
—Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 24 Oct. 2022
Lots of travelers get the idea to swap snow for sand and hot chocolate for margaritas.
—Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
For weeks, the Olympic hopeful couldn’t get the idea out of her head.
—Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2022
Even businesspeople with such little business experience as to suggest that wholesalers should pay more will eventually get the idea.
—Washington Post, 5 May 2022
Sulzer couldn’t get the idea out of his head.
—Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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