get a grip on



get a grip on

Also, have a grip on. Obtain mastery or control over something or someone. For example, Get a grip on yourself or the reporters will give you a hard time, or, as Arthur Conan Doyle put it in Sherlock Holmes (1894): "I have a grip on the essential facts of the case." This expression transfers a firm physical hold to emotional or intellectual control. [Late 1800s]
See also: get, grip, on

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Pate-Medieval English
Altwidus-Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
SigridSEEG-reed (Finnish)Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Estonian, Finnish (Archaic)
Junior['dʒu:njə]
Chantelleshawn-TEL, shan-TELEnglish
OdinO-dinNorse Mythology, English (Modern)