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catch something

Fig. to see or listen to something. I will try to catch that new movie this weekend. Did you catch that radio program about cancer last night?

catch

1. n. a drawback. Okay, that sounds good, but what’s the catch?

2. tv. to view something; to attend something; to hear something. Did you catch Gone with the Wind on TV?

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• a shut mouth catches no flies
• cat in gloves catches no mice
• catch
• catch (on) fire
• catch (one) napping
• catch (someone) by surprise
• catch (someone) flat-footed
• catch (someone) off balance
• catch (someone's) drift
• catch (someone's) fancy
• catch (the) headlines
• Catch 22
• catch a break
• catch a buzz
• catch a cold
• catch a crab
• catch a snooze
• catch a tan
• catch a Tartar
• catch a weasel asleep
• catch air
• catch as catch can
• catch at
• catch at (a) straw(s)
• catch at a bad time
• catch big air
• catch breath
• catch cold
• catch dead to rights
• catch death
• catch death!
• catch dust
• catch eye
• catch fire
• catch flies
• catch forty winks
• catch from
• catch heat
• catch hell
• catch hold of
• catch in
• catch in the act
• catch it
• catch it in the neck
• catch lightning in a bottle
• Catch me later
• catch napping
• catch off guard
• catch on
• catch on the hop
• catch one off
• catch one's breath
• catch one's death (of cold)
• catch onto
• catch out
• catch red-handed
• catch sight of
• catch some rays
• catch some shuteye
• catch some Zs
• catch some z's
• catch someone's eye
• catch something
• catch the drift
• catch the eye
• catch the eye of (someone)
• catch the next wave
• catch the sun
• catch the wave
• catch to it
• catch up
• catch up in
• catch up on
• catch up to (something or someone)
• catch up with
• catch up with (someone)
• catch with
• catch with pants down
• catch you later
• catch-22
• catch-as-catch-can
• caught in the crunch
• devil
• early bird catches the worm
• First catch your hare
• get drift
• get eye Go to catch
• get the drift
• get wind of
• have (someone) by the short hairs
• hell
• honey catches more flies than vinegar
• I didn't catch that remark. and I didn't get that.; I didn't hear you
• I didn't catch the name, and I didn't catch your name
• I don't have time to catch my breath
• If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
• it takes one to know one
• keep no more cats than can catch mice
• not let catch doing
• off guard
• onto
• play catch-up
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• springes to catch woodcocks
• take by surprise
• The early bird catches the worm
• time to catch breath
• try to catch you some other time
• up with
• What’s the catch?
• What's the catch?
• when sneezes, catches a cold
• whiff of
• You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
• You must lose a fly to catch a trout
• you'll catch your death
• you'll catch your death of cold