Get the Picture

Also, get the picture. Understand or infer the real import or substance of something. For example, He gestured to the waiter, who got the message and brought the bill, or Kate got the picture and decided to keep her mouth shut about the error. [Mid-1900s] Also see get it.

The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: get the meaning of something
  Synonyms: comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend

Get the Picture can refer to:

• Get the Picture (game show), a children's game show
• Get The Picture (game), a popular Internet game from the 1990s
• Get the Picture?, a 2003 album by Smash Mouth
• Get the Picture? (The Pretty Things album)
• Get the Picture a book by former picture editor John G. Morris

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