catch up with



catch up with

1. To find or arrest after a period of pursuit: The police finally caught up with him in Omaha.
2. To have unpleasant consequences for, especially after a period of quiescence: mistakes that caught up with him when he ran for president.
See also: catch, up

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Damjana-Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian
Sung-Hoonsung-hoonKorean
ŞIvan-Kurdish
Otar-Georgian
OliAHL-eeEnglish
Margaretamahr-gah-RE-tah (German), MAHR-gah-re-tah (Finnish)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Slovene, Dutch, Finnish, Croatian