get the drift
To understand, at least on some basic or general level.
I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.
drift
UK /dɹɪft/ US /dɹɪft/
noun 5verb 5
Definitions
noun
1
Movement; that which moves or is moved.
Some log perhaps upon the waters swam, a useless drift.
2
Movement; that which moves or is moved.
a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, of plants, etc.
Drifts of rising dust involve the sky.
3
Movement; that which moves or is moved.
4
Movement; that which moves or is moved.
cattle coming over the bridge (with their great drifts doing much damage to the high ways)
5
Movement; that which moves or is moved.
It is there seen that at a distance from the valleys of streams, the old glacial drift usually comes to the surface, and often rises into considerable eminences.
verb
1
To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
The boat drifted away from the shore.
The balloon was drifting in the breeze.
2
To move haphazardly without any destination.
He drifted from town to town, never settling down.
3
To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
This car tends to drift left at high speeds.
Midway through the half, Argentine Tevez did begin to drift inside in order to exert his influence but by this stage Mick McCarthy's side had gone 1-0 up and looked comfortable.
4
To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
1865-1866, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua I was drifted back first to the ante - Nicene history , and then to the Church of Alexandria
5
To drive into heaps.
A current of wind drifts snow or sand
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