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get hold of

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get hold of somebody
to communicate with someone get ahold of somebody He said he planned to call Mom this week, so I thought he'd get hold of her sooner or later.
See also: get, hold

get hold of something

to obtain something get ahold of something I think it should be harder for a criminal to get hold of a gun. Nothing was done by officials until the press got hold of the story.
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The wind would get hold of his head and try to shake it off his shoulders; his clothes, full of water, were as heavy as lead, cold and dripping like an armour of melting ice: he shivered -- it lasted a long time; and with his hands closed hard on his hold, he was letting himself sink slowly into the depths of bodily misery.
The widow she found out where I was by and by, and she sent a man over to try to get hold of me; but pap drove him off with the gun, and it warn't long after that till I was used to being where I was, and liked it -- all but the cowhide part.
Seeing Pinocchio's bundle lying idle near-by, they somehow managed to get hold of it.
 
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