All get a handle on synonyms

verb get a handle on

• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• wrestle — to engage in wrestling.
• handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
• confront — If you are confronted with a problem, task, or difficulty, you have to deal with it.
• get by — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• grapple — to hold or make fast to something, as with a grapple.
• survive — to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust.
• suffer — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• administer — If someone administers something such as a country, the law, or a test, they take responsibility for organizing and supervising it.
• use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• supervise — to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
• serve — to act as a servant.
• play — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• utilize — to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
• treat — to act or behave toward (a person) in some specified way: to treat someone with respect.
• conduct — When you conduct an activity or task, you organize it and carry it out.
• govern — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
• operate — to work, perform, or function, as a machine does: This engine does not operate properly.
• discuss — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
• tussle — to struggle or fight roughly or vigorously; wrestle; scuffle.
• deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
• buffet — A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table.
• face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
• dispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
• weather — the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
• struggle — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
• hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• tangle — to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
• maneuver — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• dispense — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
• wield — to exercise (power, authority, influence, etc.), as in ruling or dominating.
• direct — to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc.: He directed the company through a difficult time.
• ply — British Dialect. to bend, fold, or mold.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• steer — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
• swing — to play (music) in the style of swing.
• bestow — To bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them.
• apply — If you apply for something such as a job or membership of an organization, you write a letter or fill in a form in order to ask formally for it.
• advise — If you advise someone to do something, you tell them what you think they should do.
• dominate — to rule over; govern; control.
• guide — to assist (a person) to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions to the person: He guided us through the forest.
• manipulate — to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
• carry on — If you carry on doing something, you continue to do it.
• hack it — to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
• make out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• live with — to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.