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单词 to catch as catch can
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to catch as catch can
(b) In the verb phrase to catch as catch can (and variants).
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a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) sig. A.iiv So That rage must make pyllage To catche that catche may.
1673 J. Arrowsmith Reformation iii. ii. 30 Here Gallants take these keys. Now you may enter and catch who catch can a la mode d' Angleterre.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 197. ⁋3 In a world where all must catch that catch can.
1833 Age 15 Sept. 293/2 The young gemmen's plan was to catch as catch can.
1907 Medico-pharmaceutical Critic & Guide Dec. 167 There are many things taught in the colleges, so that the young physician is bewildered and catches as catch can.
1985 Listener 7 Mar. 14/2 The concept of broadcasting based on cities..leaves large areas in between to catch-as-catch-can, by cable television or home earth terminal.
2010 C. Read Rise & Fall Econ. Empire xxx. 262 Financial and industrial capitalists alike tried to expand what was theirs... Everyone was catching as catch can.
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