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get a grip
Wiktionary
vb. (context idiomatic English) To relax; to calm down; to stop being angry; to come to one's senses or become more rational.
Wikipedia
Get a Grip is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Aerosmith, released on April 20, 1993 by Geffen Records. Get a Grip was the band's last studio album to be released by Geffen before they returned to Columbia Records.
Get a Grip featured guests including Don Henley, who sang backup on "Amazing", and Lenny Kravitz, who offered backup vocals and collaboration to "Line Up". As on Permanent Vacation and Pump, this album featured numerous song collaborators from outside the band including: Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, Mark Hudson, Richie Supa, Taylor Rhodes, Jack Blades, and Tommy Shaw.
Get a Grip became Aerosmith's best-selling studio album worldwide, achieving sales of over 20 million copies, and is tied with Pump for their second best-selling album in the United States, selling over 7 million copies as of 1995. ( Toys in the Attic leads with eight million). This also made it their third consecutive album with US sales of at least five million. Two songs from the album won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, in 1993 and 1994. The album was voted Album of the Year by Metal Edge readers in the magazine's 1993 Readers' Choice Awards, while "Livin' on the Edge" was voted Best Video.
Get a Grip is a television series shown on ITV in the United Kingdom. It aired on Wednesday nights in April/May 2007 and was hosted by Ben Elton and Alexa Chung.
The programme was made by Phil McIntyre Productions and Big Bear Films.
ITV dropped Get a Grip from its 10pm slot as it was not performing well in terms of ratings. The programme was moved to Monday nights after midnight for the rest of the series.
The show received an averaged audience of around 1.5 million, usually being beaten by rival channels BBC One and Channel 4.
Usage examples of "get a grip".
He paused, rocking back and forth on his narrow prison cot, trying to get a grip on the short hair of his scalp, which was still bandaged, so he could pull it.
For the moment, we must concentrate on matters we can get a grip on.
He was apparently too small to get a grip on the hand support and was using Alex’.
The poison it had drunk from Angle's veins would not allow it to get a grip or maintain balance.
She put a hand up, her fingers scrabbling at the doorframe, but she could not get a grip, and her feet were sliding on the wet marble floor.
So she took care of that, too, and came out of the bathroom no less bedraggled in appearance but beginning to get a grip on her spirit.
He reached the overhang of the roof and had to lean out to get a grip on the rim of the guttering, then he kicked his feet clear and hung from his arms.
The animal fluttered above Falstad's head, trying, it seemed, to get a grip on its master.
The slime and moss that covered the scree was soft and slippery underfoot, making it hard to get a grip on the rocks.
I wasn't old enough then to really get a grip on any of the theory, but it strikes me now that although the boxes and circuits are working, it's the stuff that makes it all work—.
Hun and Krysty, her overalls sodden with Abe's blood, arrived to help, but there was not enough room for them to get a grip.
But the flesh was too slippery, and he couldn't get a grip on the tattered rags of meat.