catch someone's drift
(Redirected from catch one's drift)
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catch someone's drift (third-person singular simple present catches someone's drift, present participle catching someone's drift, simple past and past participle caught someone's drift)
- (idiomatic) To understand the meaning or implications of someone’s pronouncement.
- I see you catch my drift.
- I caught her drift when she looked at me from across the noisy lunchroom and went over to her table.
- 1986, James Ellroy, Killer on the Road, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 28:
- I was a burglary detective for three years before I joined the Speaker's Bureau, and you might say I managed to acquire a few things at a five-finger discount, if you catch my drift.
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