get one's hands on

Verb

get one's hands on (third-person singular simple present gets one's hands on, present participle getting one's hands on, simple past got one's hands on, past participle (UK) got one's hands on or (US) gotten one's hands on)

1. (informal, transitive) To get; to obtain; to secure.
   • If you can get your hands on the right ingredients, it's an easy recipe.
   • I'd have smoked Silk Cuts if I could get my hands on them more often, but they're imports and cost even more than domestics, which were outrageously priced even four years minus one day ago, and even from the discount cigarette store, where I was already spending a dollar less per deck than I would...2006, Sondra Harris, Getting My Think on, page 133
2. To catch.
   • Now Lloyd wanted badly to get his hands on him.2011, D. Talbott, Prizm
   • That's why he wants to get his hands on Noie Barnum.2011, James Lee Burke, Feast Day of Fools