弄到手

nòngdàoshǒu
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to get hold of
  2. 2 to manage to acquire
  3. 3 to lay one's hands on

Examples

Tā zhōngyú bǎ nà běn juébǎn shū nòngdàoshǒu le.
He finally got hold of that out-of-print book.
Yǎnchànghuì de piào hěn nán nòngdàoshǒu.
Tickets to the concert are hard to get hold of.

Tips

usage
Colloquial. Often hints at effort or even shady means — 'manage to get' rather than simple 'get'. Very common in -construction: X 弄到手 ('get X into one's hands').
grammar
Structure: (do/handle) + 到手 ('arriving at the hand', a resultative complement). The same 到手 attaches to many verbs: 拿到, 到手, 到手 — all meaning 'successfully get into hand'.

Stroke Order

nòng
dào
shǒu