get the hang

“Dang it, I'm never going to get the hang of all this stuff," I said, waving my hand at the makeup that littered the back of the sink.”

The Trouble with Witches

“Together, the four of them resemble an incompetent conga-party, jerking back and forth to a beat they can't get the hang of.”

the mission song

“But Tom couldn't get the hang on 't; and he spiled so many for me, that I had to break off with him, though he was a good-hearted fellow, and as fair a business hand as is goin ”

Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly