单词 | catch on |
释义 | catch onSEE SYNONYMS FOR catch on ON THESAURUS.COM verb (intr, adverb) informalto become popular or fashionable to grasp mentally; understand Words nearby catch oncatchment, catchment area, Catchment board, catch napping, catch off guard, catch on, catch one's breath, catch one's death (of cold), catch out, catchpenny, catch phrase Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with catch oncatch on Understand, as in Aunt Mary doesn't catch on to any jokes. The verb to catch alone was used with this meaning from Shakespeare's time, on being added in the late 1800s. Also see get it, def. 2. Become popular, as in This new dance is really beginning to catch on. [Late 1800s] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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