Meaning:
To acknowledge a problem as a prelude to dealing with it
Examples:
- I mean, I've come to grips with my situation.
- This little fantasy may be what's keeping you amazingly calm, but you've got to come to grips with reality.
- The European Union is the level, the organizational form, within which we can cooperate most efficiently and come to grips with the problems most effectively.
- The United States has to come to grips with this.
- I had come to grips with a lot of fun and perseverance.
- It took me a while to come to grips with that fact.
- But you have to come to grips with yourself.
- It certainly must be hard for the family to come to grips with.
- This is not the place to try to come to grips with private matters.
- He did not get up the bow he had come to grips with it.