come/get to grips with (something)

to make an effort to understand and deal with a problem or situation.

It's further proof of the government's failure to get to grips with two of the most important social issues of our time.

• cold fish
• cold-shoulder
• cold-shoulder someone
• cold snap
• cold-turkey
• cold turkey
• Colonel Blimp
• come a cropper
• come across
• come across as
• come across someone
• come across something
• Come again?
• come again
• come a gutser
• come along
• come along for the ride
• come a long way
• come apart
• come apart at the seams
• come around
• come around to
• come around to something
• come at a price
• come back down to earth