Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is get a handle on and it is a phrase meaning “to find a way of understanding/dealing with/controlling a person or situation”.
Example Sentence: Although the police and the courts have crushed protest and opposition movements in Russia, the government has been unable to get a handle on the troves of Russian data that have been leaked and sold on an expansive black market.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Russian police raid journalists probing government corruption and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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