COME TO GRIPS

come/get to grips with   to begin to understand and deal with sth difficult: 

I'm slowly getting to grips with the new software

It's time the council got to grips with this problem

synonyms: deal with, cope with, handle, grasp, tackle, face, face up with, understand, become aware of, realize,...


           

photocopies from 16th February:    1     2   


transcript bowerbirds 
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