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Meaning: (idiomatic,chieflyUK)Todeal(with something)decisively, or toconfront(it) head on.Synonym:come to grips; (idiomatic,chieflyUK)Tobattle(with something).2011November 11, Rory Houston, “Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland”, inRTE Sport[1]:Estonia were struggling toget to grips withthe game while Ireland were showing a composure and guile that demonstrated their experience in play-off ties.; (idiomatic,chieflyUK)To gain anunderstanding(of something).2017May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume47,→DOI, pages2336–2347:[…] autism is the integral explanation of the phenomenon Kafka in all its expressions, and autism can explain the mystery of Kafka like no other of the interpretations proposed by literary scholars and critics in the history of Kafka research. […] The search by Kafka in his writing was for the unknown perspective in his fellow human beings which could put him at ease but he never managed to find it. He intuited this other state of mind and his writing is a testament of his search for this alien state of mind or self-consciousness which he tried to describe via parables, animal stories, aphorisms and images. His problem was that he could notget to gripswith reality, more specifically his own reality, because he could not live with it.
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