get one's head around

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

1. (informal, transitive, chiefly in the negative) To understand; fathom; solve.
   • 2009, Wahida Shaffi, Our Stories, Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women's Voices, →ISBN:

     When my mum did pass away I fell out with God because I couldn't get my head around why he'd taken away the one person that we needed in our lives, because dad was no good to us.

   • 2014, Raymond Tallis, The Kingdom of Infinite Space […] , Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 274:

     Throughout this book I have been trying to get my head around my head. And now I am about to try to get my head around the very processes by which I have been trying to get my head around itself: I am going to think about thought.