get the hang

Verb

Meaning

be or become completely proficient or skilled in

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Examples

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it. Sally Schneider

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. Douglas Adams

If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become To live would be an awfully big adventure! but he can never quite the hang of it... J. M. Barrie

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. Cormac McCarthy

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories. James Webb Young

When things change a lot, some guys handle the change better than others, but that doesn't mean the guys that take longer to get the hang of things are suddenly slow drivers! Niki Lauda

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