"If none of this is clicking for you yet, it is not clicking for me, either."

Question

This is from the transcript of a podcast.

ALLYN: ...Mark Zuckerberg's version of the metaverse, everyone is legless and just a floating torso. And I don't know. I kind of like my legs. I'm a pretty good runner. I mean, how - if I'm in the metaverse without legs, I lose my best asset. I don't know.

SANDERS: If none of this is clicking for you yet, it is not clicking for me, either. So I called up both Bobby and Shannon to make the metaverse make sense for me and for all of you. Also, we should mention right here that Facebook, or Meta, that company has been a sponsor of NPR. And while we're at it, so have Google, Microsoft and Apple - companies you'll hear mentioned later in this chat.

I wonder what 'click for' means in the above context.

Answer 1

When we suddenly understand something (especially if it has been puzzling us) we can say that it 'clicked' (in our heads, comparing our brain with a mechanical device, where a part can click or snap into place).

I couldn't work out how Joe got home, and then it clicked! He owns a bicycle!

click verb (BECOME CLEAR) C2 [ I ] informal

to be understood, or become clear suddenly:

Suddenly everything clicked and I realized where I'd met him.

As he talked about his schooldays, it suddenly clicked where I had met him before.

So it's finally clicked that you're going to have to get yourself a job, has it?

Click (Cambridge Dictionary)