get the picture

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to understand a situation, especially one that sb is describing to you

   You get the picture?

   Get the picture now ?

In the movies · 11

• I got the picture! I knew it! I always suspected.Mighty Aphrodite1995
• -You're Fingermen. -She's getting the picture.V for Vendetta2006
• I... I get the picture.Beautiful Thing1996
• You get the picture?Training Day2001
• Get the picture?Despicable Me2010
• Get the picture?Monsters, Inc.2001
• Get the picture now ?The Mighty1998
• So, anyway, you get the picture.Dolittle2020

Learn it in full scenes

• Mighty Aphrodite1995
  • Lenny and Amanda Debate a Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda Name the Baby
  • Lenny and Amanda's Hamptons Fight
• V for Vendetta2006
  • V's Opening Monologue
  • V Introduces Himself to Evey
  • Sutler's Cabinet Spins the Explosion
• Beautiful Thing1996
  • Sandra Catches the Boys Bunking Off
  • Neighbours Shout Over Leah's Music
  • Jamie and Steven Read in Bed

From the same entry

• be a picture
• be the picture of health, guilt, misery
• in of the picture
• put in the picture
• the big picture
• paint a picture of
• as pretty as a picture

More idioms

• over head
• be a believer in
• be on your best behaviour
• pull leg
• the sooner the better
• with the exception of
• take your place
• on the line
• make a mountain out of a molehill
• the apple of eye
• go through the roof
• go to the ends of the earth