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Get onto   /gɛt ˈɑntu/   Listen
Get onto

verb
1.
Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.  Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig.






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"Get onto" Quotes from Famous Books



... There's a good many things going on that they are not supposed to know about, and that they wouldn't be very likely to get onto, either, some of 'em, even if they were right on the ground. Some of those ducks are pretty green, and fellows like Blaisdell or Rivers can make them believe most anything. If Blaisdell was half as smart as he makes some of those eastern fellows ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

... "It's their livelihood to get onto everything. 'Well then,' I said to myself, 'Here's my chance, my only one. I want those two young men. They're the right combination nation for me, to give real distinction to my undertaking. I have money, but they ain't the sort ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson

... light of life, shall have everlasting life; all things are possible to him that believeth." Come down out of the gallery of supine hero worshippers, get into the arena and be the hero. Quit the drivel of matinee idol longing, and get onto the stage of life and get the bouquets for yourself. The world is waiting to ring up the curtain for your ...
— Supreme Personality • Delmer Eugene Croft

... back to Pickering, and sighed deeply. "And I thought everybody here had gone off his rocker," he said. "We will erect, on the ruins of Keegark, a hundred-foot statue of Senorita Hildegrade Hernandez.... How did you get onto this?" ...
— Ullr Uprising • Henry Beam Piper

... on the same trip with Mr. Mainwaring. He was following up a case in London, but he managed to keep his eye on Mr. Mainwaring and kept this Merrick posted of all that he was doing. It was because of some remarks of his that I got wind of, that I determined from the first to get onto his game." ...
— That Mainwaring Affair • Maynard Barbour



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