Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
getting a grip on liberty.
Urdu translation:
آزاد زندگی کے پیچ و خم سے نبرد آزما ہونا
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Moazzam Ali
Jan 26, 2018 18:41
6 yrs ago
English term
getting a grip on liberty.
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English to Urdu
Social Sciences
Poetry & Literature
complete sentence is
"And several million black people were getting a grip on liberty" . Most were homeless, moneyless, and illiterate.
"And several million black people were getting a grip on liberty" . Most were homeless, moneyless, and illiterate.
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Qudsia Lone
United States
United States
Native in Urdu
Works in field
United States
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Native in: Urdu
Works in: Urdu to English, English to Urdu
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آزاد زندگی کے پیچ و خم سے نبرد آزما ہونا
The expression "to get a grip on something" means "to begin to understand a difficult situation and start to find a way of dealing with it".
Attaining liberty was not an easy transition as African Americans had been forcibly brought to America as slaves and had lived as slaves for generations, not to mention the difficult struggle it was to get freedom which to this day is still accompanied by prejudice and discrimination in many forms.
Attaining liberty was not an easy transition as African Americans had been forcibly brought to America as slaves and had lived as slaves for generations, not to mention the difficult struggle it was to get freedom which to this day is still accompanied by prejudice and discrimination in many forms.
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Irfan Ullah (M.A English)
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Pakistan
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Native in: Pashto (Pushto) 
, Urdu
Works in: English to Pashto (Pushto), English to Urdu, Pashto (Pushto) to English, and 3 more.
آزادی حاصل کرنا یا آزادی پر گرفت حاصل کرنا
اور کئی ملین سیاہ فام لوگ آزادی پر گرفت حاصل کر رہے تھے
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Shikeb Shirazi
United States
United States
Native in Urdu
United States
Translating Since 1995
Native in: Urdu 
, Punjabi
Works in: English to Urdu, English to Navajo, English to Hawaiian, and 16 more.
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اور کروڑوں کالے لوگ آزادی پر گرفت حاصل کر رہے تھے۔ زیادہ تر بے گھر، مفلس اور ناخواندہ تھے۔
اور کروڑوں کالے لوگ آزادی پر گرفت حاصل کر رہے تھے۔ زیادہ تر بے گھر، مفلس اور ناخواندہ تھے۔
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