to have a handle

[Winter22]

"I still don't think people have a handle on the fact that, for all intents and purposes, we have a TV network working for us, essentially free, that is worldwide,"

шо она имела в виду?

[Kate-I]

не осознают
for all intents and purposes = practically = по существу

[robot]

Oxford: get / have a handle on sb/sth - to understand or know about sb/sth, especially so that you can deal with it or them later

to all intents and purposes (AmE for all intents and purposes) - in the effects that sth has, if not in reality; almost completely