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EnglishWrap your head around something
Meaning: To manage to understand or accept something that is complicated, surprising, or hard to believe.
Example: “I still can't wrap my head around how fast the kids have grown up.”
Origin: An informal expression that spread in everyday English in the late 20th century, alongside the British variant "get your head round something." The picture is of the mind physically closing around an idea to take hold of it, and the phrase is most often used in the negative: "I can't wrap my head around it."
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