get hold of
     v 1: get into one's hands, take physically; "take a cookie";
          "can you take this bag, please" syn: take
     2: be in or establish communication with; "our advertisements
        reach millions"; "he never contacted his children after he
        emigrated to australia" syn: reach, get through, contact
     3: affect; "fear seized the prisoners"; "the patient was seized
        with unberable pains"; "he was seized with a dreadful
        disease" syn: seize, clutch
see also:
take reach get through contact seize clutch 

60 moby thesaurus words for "get hold of":
   abduct, absorb, annex, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain,
   assimilate, be informed, be with one, become acquainted with,
   broaden the mind, carry off, catch, catch on, comprehend, conceive,
   cram the mind, determine, dig, digest, discover, fathom, find,
   find out, find out about, follow, gain knowledge, get, get at,
   get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, glom on to, grab,
   grasp, have, have it taped, ken, kidnap, know, lay hands on, learn,
   learn about, load the mind, master, pick up information, read,
   realize, savvy, seize, seize the meaning, sense, shanghai, take,
   take in, take over, take possession, take up, throttle,
   understand