TODAY'S IDIOM: COME TO GRIPS WITH / GET TO GRIPS WITH

"COME TO GRIPS WITH / GET TO GRIPS WITH"

If you come to grips with something, or get to grips with something, you deal with the problems or challenges it poses.

Example: The government is having trouble coming to grips with the problem of rising oil prices.

Enfrentarse.

Example sentences:

• If Henry wants to be a successful executive, he'll have to get to grips with his fear of public speaking / Si Henry quiere ser un ejecutivo de éxito, tiene que enfrentar el miedo que tiene hablar en público.

• The company's production manager hasn't come to grips with major issues relating to production, so he might lose his job / El gerente de la producción de la empresa no ha enfrentado los principales problemas relacionados con la producción, por lo que podría perder su trabajo.

Additional examples:

• We must all come to grips with this tragedy. 

• I cannot come to grips with Ed and his problems.

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