"pick up what someone is putting down" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "picks up what someone is putting down",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking up what someone is putting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up what someone was putting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up what someone was putting down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 November 2, Melanie McFarland, “TV anchors keep to their word”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-05-24:",
          "text": "Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Joseph C. Phillips, He Talk Like a White Boy, →ISBN, page 278, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If we are serious about putting the party of Lincoln back on track, we had better begin to pick up what black folk are putting down.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 July 6, J. Maureen Henderson, “Lessons From The World's Best Coworker”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-05-24:",
          "text": "I will tell you about these things . . . because I like you and I think you’d be interested in picking up what I’m putting down.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "pay attention",
          "pay attention"
        ],
        [
          "learn",
          "learn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "catch someone's drift"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pick up what someone is laying down"
        },
        {
          "word": "smell what someone is stepping in"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "pick up what someone is putting down"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks up what someone is putting down",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking up what someone is putting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up what someone was putting down",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up what someone was putting down",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "word": "catch someone's drift"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004 November 2, Melanie McFarland, “TV anchors keep to their word”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 2014-05-24:",
          "text": "Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Joseph C. Phillips, He Talk Like a White Boy, →ISBN, page 278, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If we are serious about putting the party of Lincoln back on track, we had better begin to pick up what black folk are putting down.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 July 6, J. Maureen Henderson, “Lessons From The World's Best Coworker”, in Forbes, retrieved 2014-05-24:",
          "text": "I will tell you about these things . . . because I like you and I think you’d be interested in picking up what I’m putting down.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understand",
          "understand"
        ],
        [
          "pay attention",
          "pay attention"
        ],
        [
          "learn",
          "learn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pick up what someone is laying down"
    },
    {
      "word": "smell what someone is stepping in"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick up what someone is putting down"
}