catch someone's drift
verb1
Idiomatic To understand the meaning or implications of someone’s pronouncement.
- I see you catch my drift.
- I caught her drift when she looked at me from across the noisy lunchroom and went over to her table.
1 more example
- 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:
- Related terms
- pick up what someone is putting down, get someone's point, drive at