get hold of
idiom
variants
or chiefly US get a hold of
1
: to get possession of (something) : to succeed in getting (something)
Somehow she managed to get hold of the band's new album before it came out.
Where did you get hold of that idea?
2
: to find and talk to (someone) : to contact (someone)
I need to talk to my lawyer, but I haven't been able to get hold of him.
I've been trying to get a hold of my lawyer for days.
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Apple doesn’t give much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 18.4, to give people as much time to update their iPhones as possible before attackers can get hold of the details.
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Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Vasily Astrov, an expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, said the privatization plan was another episode in property redistribution in Russia and that private actors close to government would get hold of the assets in question.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
While many of the attack routes will be familiar territory to most readers, a new report from Trend Micro has seen numerous security experts recommend people need to be alert to new approaches to getting hold of their account login information.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The government got hold of public key cryptography and used it to hide their own secrets so that all the intelligence files and all the defense files, everything at the Pentagon, is now hidden.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
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Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Vasily Astrov, an expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, said the privatization plan was another episode in property redistribution in Russia and that private actors close to government would get hold of the assets in question.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
While many of the attack routes will be familiar territory to most readers, a new report from Trend Micro has seen numerous security experts recommend people need to be alert to new approaches to getting hold of their account login information.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
The government got hold of public key cryptography and used it to hide their own secrets so that all the intelligence files and all the defense files, everything at the Pentagon, is now hidden.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
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“Get hold of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/get%20hold%20of. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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