View synonyms for latch onto

latch onto

Attach oneself to, join in with, as in Rob didn't know the way so he latched on to one of the older children . [c. 1930]
Get hold of, grasp; also, understand, grasp mentally. For example, They latched onto a fortune in the fur trade , or Carol quickly latched on to how the sewing machine works . [c. 1930]

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Which is necessary because the characters he encounters on his journey are often way too kooky—and, well, Guest-ian—to latch onto.

Instead, we latch onto the number and use that as a symbol of everything else.

Conservatives latch onto issues that involve bad guys with big guns.

Of course, Big Pharma was only too happy to latch onto the early results as well.

With books, it is the buzz and name notoriety that publishers latch onto.

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