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If someone has not been doing a specific action for a while, you can say he "lost his grip" (got out of practice). But what about the other direction, when you want to say that a person is new and must start practicing in order to get a handle on the work, I am quite sure I have heard something similar, most likely with the word "grip". I was thinking about "get grip on" but not sure if this can be used. |
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You could perhaps say, "He regained his touch" or "He regained his lost form." |
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Possibly you are thinking of "get the hang of it"; eg
The idiom dates from the 1840's; eg see explanation at metafilter.com, which quotes OED as saying
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If by "work" you mean paid labor, which presumably you do mean, then in American English we usually use "get up to speed". We tend to reserve "get the hang of" something for basic things (like how to hold a pencil properly) that you do not get directly paid for. (Of course, you could use "get the hang of" in a joking manner to mean "get up to speed", perhaps with the goal of taking some pressure off the situation.) By the way, someone who is alredy up to speed at the time of hire is / can be referred to as "plug and play", or as someone who can "hit the ground running". |
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