come to grips

1. 1.

   deal with (a problem or a subject)

   “I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents”

   Synonymsget to grips

   Broadermanage

Questions about come to grips

What does come to grips mean?

come to grips means "deal with (a problem or a subject)".

What is another word for come to grips?

Close synonyms include get to grips. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is come to grips a common word?

come to grips is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.