catch someone's drift

present singular third person catches someone's drift · participle present catching someone's drift · participle past caught someone's drift · past caught someone's drift

1. idiomaticTo understand the meaning or implications of someone’s pronouncement.

   I see you catch my drift.

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   I caught her drift when she looked at me from across the noisy lunchroom and went over to her table.

   I was a burglary detective for three years before I joined the Speaker's Bureau, and you might say I managed to acquire a few things at a five-finger discount, if you catch my drift.

   1986, James Ellroy, Killer on the Road, Avon Books, →ISBN, page 28