rift 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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short shrift

rude treatment She received short shrift from her supervisor when she asked for a holiday.

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rift

see step to

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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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short shrift|short|shrift

n. Little or no attention. Usually used with "get" or "give". In books about jobs, women's work is consistently given short shrift.

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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.

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give short shrift

give short shrift
see short shrift, give.

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short shrift, give

short shrift, give
Also, get short shrift. Give (or receive) cursory attention or little time. For example, The architect made elaborate plans for the entry but gave short shift to the back of the house. Literally, shrift refers to confession to a priest, who gives absolution and penance, and short shrift to the brief time allowed for this sacrament to a prisoner before execution. Shakespeare so used it in Richard III (3:4), but it came to be used more loosely in succeeding centuries. [Late 1800s]

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shrift

shrift
see short shrift, give.