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Confront squarely, deal decisively with, as in Her stories help the children come to grips with upsetting events . This term, sometimes put as get to grips with , employs grip in the sense of a “tight hold.” [Mid-1900s]

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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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