Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for get the message. Search instead for get+the+message.
Synonyms

get the message

Idioms  

  1. Also, get the picture. Understand or infer the real import or substance of something. For example, He gestured to the waiter, who got the message and brought the bill, or Kate got the picture and decided to keep her mouth shut about the error. [Mid-1900s] Also see get it.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"We've tried to be transparent and open. We're trying to get the message out on what's happening but unfortunately some people are coming in and being vile to my team," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

As an honest broker from the moderate left, notwithstanding his Trump fixation, Mr. Traub may be the chap to get the message across.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

“I was supposed to get the message — and it would be ‘my own decision,’ so I’d be stuck with it,” Dudek said.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

“So anyway, I apologize that I didn’t get the message that you don’t like spending time with me,” Spacey said in his video, with a touch of sarcasm as he raised up both hands.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025

“No kidding? I wasn’t sure—that viper glare she gave me when you made her invite me didn’t quite get the message across, I guess.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.