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Phrase(s): get something through someone’s thick skull [and] get something into someone’s thick head
Fig. to manage to get someone, including oneself, to understand something. • He can’t seem to get it through his thick skull that he has to study to pass the exam. • If I could get this into my thick head once, I’d remember it.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs