get to grips

1. 1.

   deal with (a problem or a subject)

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

   Synonymscome to grips

   Broadermanage

Questions about get to grips

What does get to grips mean?

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

What is another word for get to grips?

Close synonyms include come 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 get to grips a common word?

get 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.