"Get the hang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and see if I can get the hang of it," Abe declared. "I reckon Mentor Graham could ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... returned Mr. Evringham. "Teaching me new tricks is going to be no joke, but your mother undertakes it cheerfully. I'm reading that book, 'Science and Health;' and she says I may have to read it through three times before I get the hang of it." ...
— Jewel's Story Book • Clara Louise Burnham
... taste that way,' said Revere between his puffs of his cheroot, 'you'll never be able to get the hang of it, but remember, Bobby, 't isn't the best drill, though drill is nearly everything, that hauls a Regiment through Hell and out on the other side. It's the man who knows how to handle men goat-men, ...
— Under the Deodars • Rudyard Kipling
... me a number of visits," the commanding General said with a laugh, "Our aviation camp seems to be an attraction for them. We have shot down six of them in the last few weeks. Our gunners are really only just beginning to get the hang of it, with practice. The trouble in peace time was always to find some sort of a target to train our gunners in the use of the new motor gun. We couldn't very well ask of our own aviators to go up and let themselves ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various
... got their goat," the captain insisted. "When trouble's hatching, I go straight to them and tell them what. They can't get the hang of it. Think I've got some powerful ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London
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