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Meaning of get one's head around | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To understand; fathom; solve.

informal, transitive

Examples

“How did you get this number? / I can't get my head 'round you”
“When my mum did pass away I fell out with God because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us.”
“Throughout this book I have been trying to get my head around my head. And now I am about to try to get my head around the very processes by which I have been trying to get my head around itself: I am going to think about thought.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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