do you catch my drift

do you understand the words that are comming out of my mouth?

So her momma steps in and things got out of control... do you catch my drift?

by Teller May 6, 2006

Do you catch my drift

The earliest quotation in the Oxford English Dictionary for this sense of "drift" is dated 1526: "Harde it is . . . to perceyue the processe and dryfte of this treatyse."
Found on "Phrases dot org"

The speaker may be having trouble communicating with their audience and not knowing how to better explain.

This is similar to "do you feel me?" or "do you get it?".

Otherwise there is a certain mentality and a certain consciousness along with what the speaker & the audience are generally known to understand.

Bugsy says to his cohorts in crime "I took care of it. Do you catch my drift?".

by Hare Krsna Gardening December 26, 2022