get the drift

Idioms and Phrases

Also, catch the drift . Understand the general meaning or purport. For example, I didn't get the drift—do they want to go or not? or Over all the noise he barely managed to catch the drift of their conversation . The noun drift has been used for “purport” since the early 1500s.

Related Words

• catch
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• feature
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• notice
• observe
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• realize
• recognize
• study
• suffer
• think
• understand