Catch

Slang Dictionary

catch definition


  1. n.
    a drawback. : Okay, that sounds good, but what's the catch?
  2. tv.
    to view something; to attend something; to hear something. Gone with the Wind on TV? : Did you catch
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Slang Dictionary

catch (sth) definition


  1. tv.
    to see or listen to something. (More specific than the colloquial sense, to manage to hear something.) : Did you catch that radio program about cancer last night?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

catch

In addition to the idioms beginning with catch, also see early bird catches the worm; get (catch) the drift; takes one to know one (a thief to catch a thief). Also see under caught.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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