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get the message
Idioms and Phrases
Also, get the picture . Understand or infer the real import or substance of something. For example, He gestured to the waiter, who got the message and brought the bill , or Kate got the picture and decided to keep her mouth shut about the error . [Mid-1900s] Also see get it .Example Sentences
Following that, others get the message and are afraid to reveal information the administration wants to hide.
"We're going to fight to defend the welfare state...we do want to get the message across to Stormont - either they put pressure on central government and get money released or they prepare a package of mitigations so as ordinary people aren't crushed under the weight of these cuts."
Thorne hopes the PM will get the message that "there's a there is a crisis happening in our schools, and we need to think about how to stop boys from harming girls, and each other".
It will be up to the department to more aggressively get the message out.
“But we can still get the message out for your drug.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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