get a grip

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to improve your behaviour or control your emotions after being afraid, upset or angry

   Get a grip on yourself, will you?

   Get a grip on yourself! You're acting like a coward!

In the movies · 6

• Get a grip on yourself! You're acting like a coward!Paths of Glory1957
• Get a grip on yourself, will you?One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest1975
• Get a grip. Get a grip.Rye Lane2023
• Get a grip.Love Actually2003
• Get a grip, soldier!Coraline2009
• Okay, get a grip.Isn't It Romantic2019
• 'Get a grip, man.Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998
• God, Candace, would you get a grip?Boys Don't Cry1999

Learn it in full scenes

• Paths of Glory1957
  • Broulard Pitches the Anthill Offensive
  • Broulard Visits Dax at the Front
  • Mireau Orders Dax to Take the Anthill
• Rye Lane2023
  • Yas Teases Dom at His Gallery Show
  • Yas Buys Nathan's Photo at the Show
  • Dom and Yas Meet in Peckham

From the same entry

• come to grips with
• in the grip of
• lose your grip

More idioms

• make day
• make sense of
• the last straw
• be in on
• be on the lookout
• get down to business
• in a way
• a walk in the park
• all the same
• catch red handed
• cost an arm and a leg
• follow in footsteps