drift Idiom, Proverb

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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.