get the idea

There are “radical leftists,” so you shouldn’t get the idea there is some sort of woke agenda behind this drama.

Where did you get the idea of using microexpressions — humiliation, exasperation, disdain — to get laughs?

How did you even get the idea to dress like Dr. Phil, of all people?

They really did get the idea that we weren’t trying to force a political agenda down anybody’s throat.

Some of those may be fictional, but you get the idea.