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 nòng dào shǒu le.
He finally got hold of that out-of-print book.
Yǎnchànghuì de piào hěn nán nòng dào shǒu.
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