What is "got ahold of"

Usage examples of "got ahold of".

Somehow Madame Lulu got ahold of it and passed on the information to Olaf.

Why, just last week the Labor Union finally got ahold of poor old Hercules and made him cough up dues.

Pam might not feel any pain, but if I got ahold of her neck, she was going down in a modified sleeper.

I called up there and got ahold of a friend of mine in Operations.

Mirda jammed Tirla tight against her angular body while Mama Bobchik somehow got ahold of Tirla's free arm, effectively pinning her between the two formidably large women.

Not long after Colson's life hit bottom, Jesus Christ got ahold of him.

He swore up an' down he hadn't had a drop, only Charlie says he got ahold of some of this ox-eye somewhere.

We came down here and the goddamned creature came out of the bushes and got ahold of his arm, dragged him back in there.

I never knew preachers liked women that much, until the Reverend Jonah got ahold of me.

I think once the Organians got ahold of this report, they would have ruled in the Federation’.

He turned red and looked ready to burst but she got ahold of herself and apologized, then smoothed over his feelings by insisting on being allowed to buy two liters of their crumbleberry cream pudding before going because it was so incomparably good.

Once Harry got ahold of something, he tended to keep it to himself, and Holly wanted to play out her own string before she turned it over to the FBI.