get mind around

get your mind around something

to succeed in understanding something difficult or strange I still can't get my mind around the cruel things she said last night.

Related vocabulary: get your arms around something

get your mind around something

to succeed in understanding something difficult or strange (usually negative) I still can't get my mind around the strange things she said that night.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Danna	-	English
Ulriikka	OOL-ree:k-kah	Finnish (Rare)
Vilhelmina	-	Swedish (Rare), Lithuanian (Rare)
Dushyant	-	Indian, Hindi
Ealhstan	-	Anglo-Saxon
Marianne	mah-ree-AH-nə (German), MAH-ree-ahn-ne (Finnish)	French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish