"get the drift" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gets the drift",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting the drift",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the drift",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the drift",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten the drift",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "get<,,got,got􂀿UK􂁀:gotten􂀿US􂁀> the drift"
      },
      "expansion": "get the drift (third-person singular simple present gets the drift, present participle getting the drift, simple past got the drift, past participle (UK) got the drift or (US) gotten the drift)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:",
          "text": "By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand, at least on some basic or general level."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "basic",
          "basic"
        ],
        [
          "general",
          "general"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To understand, at least on some basic or general level."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "catch someone's drift"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪft"
    }
  ],
  "word": "get the drift"
}

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    {
      "form": "gets the drift",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "getting the drift",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the drift",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "got the drift",
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gotten the drift",
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "catch someone's drift"
    }
  ],
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        "Rhymes:English/ɪft",
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          "text": "I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 24:",
          "text": "By now you're probably starting to get my drift that cutting costs in today's rail industry is not going to be either easy or pain-free.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand, at least on some basic or general level."
      ],
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        [
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          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "basic",
          "basic"
        ],
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          "general",
          "general"
        ]
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To understand, at least on some basic or general level."
      ],
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      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪft"
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  "word": "get the drift"
}