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GET THE MESSAGE

to understand smth. that is only hinted at, perhaps because it is unpleasant
 GET THE MESSAGE
1. You can stop hinting that you don’t want my company. I get the message , and I won’t bother you again.
2. Jacqueline never answered the many letters the young man sent to her. She wondered when he would get the message that she wasn’t interested in hearing from him.

Compare to: get (something) through (one’s) head.


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