"Get the hang" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the door," Didyak said. The Tr'en literalist approach to the smallest problems of everyday living was a little hard to get the hang of, Korvin told himself bitterly. He ...
— Lost in Translation • Larry M. Harris
... a long time before I could get the hang of things about yer, for I was used to company and excitement. I couldn't get any woman to help me, and a man I dursen't trust; but what with the Indians hereabout, who'd do odd jobs for me, and having ...
— Selected Stories • Bret Harte
... looked up at the ceiling. "I reckon it's all right, but I don't exactly get the hang of it," he said, getting up and taking his hat off ...
— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read
... "Can't," he said decidedly. "You see, I'm busy at home all day long and you'll be busy here. My mother works out and I have to do most of the housework and take care of the baby. Pretty slow work on crutches, you know—although it's easy enough getting round after you get the hang of it. No, I really don't have any time to ...
— Maida's Little Shop • Inez Haynes Irwin
... crestfallen at once. "I can't cook, mother," he said. "Not the least in the world. Often and often I've watched Pat, but I never could get the hang ...
— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger
... way that afternoon. They crossed the Park to the westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal Botanical Gardens and then southwardly toward Waterloo. They trudged and talked, and Manning struggled, as he said, to "get the hang of it all." ...
— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells
... "I believe I'll get the hang of it after a while," said Rob, as they paused at the head of a rapid lying ahead of the two canoes. "The main thing is to map out your course before you go through, and then hang to it. You can't take any too sudden turns, and you have to be careful not to strike on a rock—that's ...
— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough
... Wickes, I am just trying to get the hang of things, you know." Jack was unwilling to even suggest a criticism of method at so early a stage in his managerial career. "I want to know how you run things, Wickes, and at any time I shall be ...
— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor
... how to do was to raise chickens. He figured that if he could get a little place off where land was cheap, and get the hang of it well in his head before his glim was doused altogether, he might worry along. He couldn't bear to think of goin' back to his old home, or hangin' around among strangers until he had to be herded into one of them big brick barracks. ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... see our mess tent still lit up at midnight. It might be good news but also it might not. Fortunately, it was pleasant news; i.e., Colonel Chauvel, commanding 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade, waiting to see me. I had known him well in Melbourne where he helped me more than anyone else to get the hang of the Australian system. ...
— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton
... to get the hang of the business somehow," said Mr. Polly. "Too much blooming humbug in it for my ...
— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells
... job to dig the ground up in order to make as large a ring as the boys had marked out, but by persistent work it was accomplished, as almost everything can be; and then Ben went to practising, in order that he might, as he expressed it, "get the hang ...
— Mr. Stubbs's Brother - A Sequel to 'Toby Tyler' • James Otis
... Torrance, drily, "I quite think I did, but there's a good deal you can't get the hang of, Hetty—and ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... moment, when the dazed Comanche had half risen and was striving to get the hang of things, a vice closed immovably about his left ankle, and his moccasin was raised almost as high ...
— The Great Cattle Trail • Edward S. Ellis |
