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American Idiomatic Expressions This online dictionary of idioms and phrases is based on original ...

[as catch can] See: CATCH AS CATCH CAN.

[catch] See: [EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM], [FAIR CATCH], [SHOESTRING CATCH].

[catch (someone) dead] {v. phr.}, {informal} To see or hear (someone) in an embarrassing act ...

[catch at] {v.} 1. To try to catch suddenly; grab for. * /The boy on ...

[catch at a straw] See: GRASP AT STRAWS.

[catch cold] {v. phr.} 1. or [take cold] To get a common cold-weather sickness that ...

[catch fire] {v. phr.} 1. To begin to burn. * /When he dropped a match ...

[catch flat-footed] See: FLAT-FOOTED(2).

[catch forty winks] See: FORTY WINKS.