catch on

It was a brick wall that we turned into the on-ramp of a highway.

While you were admiring the long roll of the wave, a sudden spray would be dashed over you, and make you catch your breath!

If I could catch Laura's eye—but I suppose it would hardly be decent to go just yet.

Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.

But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.