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CATCH IT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded
Example:
I really caught it the other day!
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
See, said the king, if you can catch it alive, and we will take it with us.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I dare say I shall catch it; and my sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They came: the master of the house was not at home, but the two sisters were together; and as it chanced that Mrs Croft fell to the share of Anne, while the Admiral sat by Mary, and made himself very agreeable by his good-humoured notice of her little boys, she was well able to watch for a likeness, and if it failed her in the features, to catch it in the voice, or in the turn of sentiment and expression.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
