get drift 成语

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get my drift

understand my meaning, dig me I don't think of you as a sister, if you get my drift.

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drift off|drift

v. phr. 1. To fall asleep, He kept nodding and drifting off to sleep while the lecturer was speaking. 2. To depart; leave gradually. One by one, the sailboats drifted off over the horizon.

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cast adrift

cast adrift
see cast loose.

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catch the drift

catch the drift
see get the drift.

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cut adrift

cut adrift
Separated or detached; freed. For example, The dissenters were cut adrift from the denomination. This expression alludes to cutting the rope of a floating vessel so that it drifts without direction or purpose. The figurative use of adrift dates from the late 1600s.

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drift

drift
see get the drift.

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get the drift

get the drift
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.

get (one's) drift

To accept the meaning, insinuation, or association of what one is saying. All I'm adage is that I won't be actual sad if she break up with her boyfriend, if you get my drift. A: "I appetite him taken affliction of—he's become too abundant of a liability." B: "I anticipate I get your drift."Learn more: drift, get

get someone's drift

Fig. to accept what addition is adage or implying. (Akin to if you get my drift.) I don't appetite to apprehend anymore about her or you. Do you get my drift?Learn more: drift, get

catch/get somebody’s/the drift

(informal) accept the accepted acceptation of what somebody says or writes: Do you bolt my drift? ♢ My German isn’t actual good, but I got the alluvion of what he said. ♢ He wasn’t the array of boy you’d acquaint to your mother, if you get my alluvion (= I accept not told you all the details, but I am abiding you can accept what I mean).Learn more: catch, drift, get

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