Verb
grab hold (third-person singular simple present grabs hold, present participle grabbing hold, simple past and past participle grabbed hold)
To take hold of something by grabbing; to seize.
Synonym: catch hold
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts
I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world. Libba Bray
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. Emmylou Harris
I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. Tom Stoppard
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small. Maureen Corrigan
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. Patti Davis