Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic chiefly UK English) To deal (with something) decisively, or to confront (it) head on. 2 (context idiomatic chiefly UK English) To battle (with something).
Usage examples of "get to grips with".
The systems on Nkrumah's Land are pretty simple, once you get to grips with the basics.
Having spent most of his life marching round the world fighting for anyone willing to pay him, he still can't get to grips with the idea of romance.
Something else to help us penetrate the mystery of your strange abilities, something to help us get to grips with what’.
He couldn't quite get to grips with the fact that that number was him, and might be him for the rest of his life.
Though he was blind the man looked back, as if bothered by some fly he could not quite get to grips with.
I had slept eight hours, and now Joe Macintosh was at the door and eager to get to grips with the nightlife of the Metropolis.
Did I just get dressed, walk downstairs, and make coffee in an introspective haze as I tried to get to grips with the real purpose of this facility?
There was no personal connection somehow to enable him really to get to grips with it.
We could not get to grips with the Tsar's ships while they are in harbour, so we must wait for the winter ice to melt.