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get the drift en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To understand, at least on some basic or general level.
I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.
By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.
2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:
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