Understanding Phrases

Phrases

• A better idea (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• A moment of clarity
• A, B, C, D, E, Your public library has arranged these in ways that make you cry, giggle, laugh, love, hate, wonder, ponder and understand (American Library Association advertising slogan)
• And don't I know it
• Bat the idea around
• Beats me
• Big picture
• Bright idea
• Catch on
• Click into place
• Cottoned on
• Couldn't make head or tail of it
• Do you copy?
• Don't criticise what you don't understand
• Figure it out
• Ford has a better idea (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Gentleman's agreement
• Germ of an idea
• Get a feel for
• Get a fix on
• Get a handle on
• Get it into your head
• Get it straight
• Get my drift
• Get the drift
• Get the hang of it
• Get the message
• Get the picture
• Get the point
• Get with it
• Get your head around something
• Get your head together
• He understands every word I say to him
• I hear what you say
• Idea whose time has come
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• Know the score
• Know what you are about
• Know what's what
• Know where we stand
• Know which end is up
• Low key
• Make out
• Make sense of
• Masterpiece of understatement
• Pre-nuptual agreement
• Put across an idea
• Service level agreement
• Show some appreciation
• Speak the same language
• Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones song)
• Tea and sympathy
• That brought it home to me
• The peace of God that passeth all understanding
• The penny drops
• The piece of cod that passeth all understanding
• The spark of an idea
• To put it mildly
• Warm to the idea
• Well up with
• What part of no do you not understand?
• What's the big idea?
• Working agreement