come to grips with: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

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    • To begin to deal with, confront, or accept a difficult problem, reality, or situation.

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    • After losing his job, Mark finally came to grips with the reality that he needed to change his career path.

      Después de perder su trabajo, Mark finalmente enfrentó la realidad de que necesitaba cambiar su trayectoria profesional.

    • I am still trying to come to grips with the news of her sudden departure.

      Todavía estoy tratando de aceptar la noticia de su partida repentina.

    • They will have to come to grips with the financial crisis if they want their business to survive.

      Tendrán que enfrentarse a la crisis financiera si quieren que su negocio sobreviva.

  • 2.

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    • To engage in close or hand-to-hand struggle or combat; to grapple physically with someone or something.

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    • The two wrestlers came to grips quickly after the referee signaled the start of the match.

      Los dos luchadores se agarraron rápidamente después de que el árbitro señalara el inicio del combate.

    • During the training session, the soldiers practiced coming to grips with each other to improve their hand-to-hand combat skills.

      Durante la sesión de entrenamiento, los soldados practicaron agarrarse entre ellos para mejorar sus habilidades de combate cuerpo a cuerpo.

    • I saw the boxers come to grips in the ring before launching their attacks.

      Vi a los boxeadores agarrarse en el ring antes de lanzar sus ataques.

    • When you learn to come to grips with an opponent, you gain better control over the fight.

      Cuando aprendes a agarrar a un oponente, obtienes mejor control sobre la pelea.

Examples:

  • EN: Someday, I'll come to grips with the Prince of Wales, and Anne Neville will be a widow.
    ES: Algún día me enfrentaré al Príncipe de Gales y la haré viuda.
  • EN: Then perhaps I'd be free to bear arms myself, Sir, and come to grips with the enemy, face to face, and steel to steel, fist to fist, Sir.
    ES: Y así yo quedaría libre para poder combatir al enemigo, ¡Cara a cara, hierro a hierro, puño a puño!
  • EN: Let's go. The woman who thinks must come to grips with fashionable attire.
    ES: La mujer inteligente tiene que saber vestir a la moda.
  • EN: Let's come to grips with this thing.
    ES: Vamos a centrarnos en el tema.
  • EN: Their lives are lived in a state of permanent uncertainty, punctuated by bouts of violence as government forces come to grips with the black-clad communist rebel forces called the Viet Cong.
    ES: Viven una incertidumbre permanente, interrumpida por la violencia mientras el Gobierno se familiariza con los comunistas vestidos de negro, conocidos como Viet Cong.
  • EN: Cooking provides one of life's rare opportunities to come to grips with eternal truth.
    ES: Cocinar proporciona una de las raras oportunidades en la vida de sentirse con la verdad universal.
  • EN: Now you must come to grips with life on your own.
    ES: Ahora debes enfrentarte a la vida por tu cuenta.
  • EN: But this was the first time that I had to come to grips with the fact that the leadership was either out of touch or was lying.
    ES: Pero esa fue la primera vez en que tuve que aceptar el hecho de que nuestros líderes estaban completamente desconectados o estaban mintiendo.
  • EN: Have you no desire to come to grips with the elemental structure and foundation of existence?
    ES: ¿No desea legar a comprender...? ¿La fundación y estructura elemental de la existencia?
  • EN: Beings growing up on any world must come to grips with the identical laws of nature.
    ES: Los seres que crecen en cualquier mundo deberán enfrentar las mismas leyes naturales.
  • EN: You got to come to grips with the fact that you killed another human being.
    ES: Tienes que aceptar el hecho de que mataste a otro ser humano.
  • EN: We now must come to grips with it.
    ES: Ahora debemos enfrentarlo.
  • EN: What if I said that I've come to grips with my job and I've come to appreciate what the three of you mean to my life?
    ES: Qué pasa si digo que he venido de mi trabajo y he valorizado lo que ustedes significan en mi vida?
  • EN: Read my lips And come to grips with reality
    ES: Lee mis labios Y admite que se burló de ti
  • EN: The fact is I just have to come to grips with the fact that I am 42 years old, and despite having every opportunity money can buy, my life has amounted to zip.
    ES: La cuestión es que debo aceptar el hecho de que tengo 42 años... y que a pesar de haber tenido todas las oportunidades del mundo, mi vida se resume en nada.
  • EN: Someday, I'll come to grips with the Prince of Wales, and Anne Neville will be a widow.
    ES: Algún día me enfrentaré al Príncipe de Gales y la haré viuda.

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