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GET (A) HOLD OF (SOMEONE)

to contact someone or communicate with someone, usually by telephone
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1. The real estate agent couldn’t get hold of them before the house was sold to someone else. They never answered their phone.
2. The ambulance brought the little boy to the hospital, and the doctor got a hold of the boy’s parents before he operated.


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