to get the hang
58
3.6
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt ðə hæŋ/
- Informal
:
cogerle el truco
- After a few lessons, I finally got the hang of playing the guitar.
You feel like maybe, possibly, you kind of got the hang of it now.
- You feel like maybe, possibly, you kind of got the hang of it now.
- So it's like once they got the hang of it, we started every summer for six weeks.
- Either way though, I feel like once we really get the hang of how to drive in a racing game, it'll be really fun.
- I feel like I'm getting the hang of it, but the hang of it, Yeah.
Examples
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Took me weeks before I got the hang of it.
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After some attempts, I could finally start to get the hang of it and produce nice prints.
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All right, we'll have lots more practice with this today and we'll get the hang of doing these problems.
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You feel like maybe, possibly, you kind of got the hang of it now.
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So it's like once they got the hang of it, we started every summer for six weeks.
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Maybe not in the beginning, but later on, when I got the hang of things.
Fiction book (1994) -
"It's not so difficult once you get the hang of it."
Fiction book (1998) -
Eventually, even the most reluctant got the hang of Internet searching and began to enjoy it.
Academic text (1998) -
Becoming human isn't so very difficult, once you get the hang of it.
Fiction book (2000) -
Don't worry, I'll get the hang of it.
Synonyms
59
3.9
To learn how to do something after some practice
34
1.8
To become more skilled in an activity by practicing
9
3.4
To begin to understand how to do a job by gaining basic skills
1
6.3
To work smoothly and easily after a short time
Antonyms
How Skilled
118
3.9
191
4.1
- Informal
58
3.6
∞
1.0
851
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'get' (to acquire or come to understand) with 'hang' (a knack or practiced technique), so its meaning 'acquire the knack' or 'become proficient' is directly derivable from the constituents. Although the full idiomatic form is usually 'get the hang of (something)', the composition is transparent to a learner who knows both word senses.
Etymology
Get the hang may come from the simple idea of learning how to hang things neatly. At first you do it wrong, but after practice you get the right way, so the phrase means 'to become good at' something.