catch it

Idioms  

1. Also, get it. Receive a punishment or scolding, as in If I forget anything on the shopping list, I'll catch it, or I'm really going to get it when I turn in my paper late. [Colloquial; early 1800s]

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catch it

"You'll never catch it and you wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Investors keep chasing performance, but they never seem to catch it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Cancer is not the death sentence it used to be, but the sooner you catch it, the better the outcome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The defect was traced back to supplier production quality and Boeing’s inability to catch it.

From Barron's ● May 28, 2026

Whenever a wave would finally come all the surfers would drop to their stomachs and start paddling like crazy trying to get in the best spot to catch it.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña