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CATCH IT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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

Credits

 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)