phrasal verb · neutral
get one's head around
UK/ɡet wʌnz hed əˈraʊnd/US/ɡet wʌnz hɛd əˈraʊnd/get one's HEAD a·ROUND
to understand something that is surprising or confusing after thinking about it
Examples
“It took me a while to get my head around the new timetable.”
“She still hasn’t got her head around why the company changed policy.”
“I can't quite get my head around how they solved that problem so fast.”
Band 8 sentence
“Although the theory sounded plausible, I couldn’t get my head around how the researchers had reached that conclusion without more data.”
Collocations
- get your head around + concept/idea/problem
- finally/getting/getting to get your head around
Word family
Common mistakes
get head around→get my/your/his/her/their head around
get one's head→get one's head around (something)
Say it for a higher band
5understand→6grasp→7+get one's head around
Synonyms
grasp
wrap one's head around
Easily confused
get to grips with
“It took the team a month to get to grips with the new software.”
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