catch napping

Shockingly, this last couplet made it into the 1953 film version; someone was napping over at MGM.

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?

We nearly played our horses out galloping around looking for you—after we'd gone a mile or so, and you didn't catch up.