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Catch up   /kætʃ əp/   Listen
Catch up

verb
1.
Reach the point where one should be after a delay.
2.
Learn belatedly; find out about something after it happened.



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"Catch up" Quotes from Famous Books



... spinning round on one foot like a teetotum in the effort to find that world behind his back which continually fled from him. Perhaps this is why the world goes round. Perhaps the world is always trying to look over its shoulder and catch up the world which always escapes it, yet without which it ...
— Tremendous Trifles • G. K. Chesterton
... I went directly to my room, planning that to-morrow I would take several hours off and catch up in ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve
... Cattivanza had a way of putting his neighbours to the push, not caring to hazard his own person. So, finding there around him several young fellows of the highest daring, more eager than apt for so serious an enterprise, he bade them catch up Captain Cisti and get the money from him, and if the guard resisted, overpower the men, provided they had pluck enough to ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... announced the passing of the supreme power from the Tsar to Grand Duke Michail, when his words were answered by angry shouts in favor of a democratic republic, the position of the party became precarious. They had either to revise their own program and to catch up with the rush of the progressive current, or else to find themselves in the role of inundated rocks over which the waters flow. The announcement that the party would support a demand for a republic ...
— The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement • Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel Northrup Harper,
... Lige broke in; "I think I'd ought to be hanged for letting him out of my sight. Maybe it's all right; maybe he turned and started right back for town—and got there. But I had no business to leave him, and if I can I'll catch up with him yet." He went to the front door, and, opening it, let in a tornado of wind and flood of water that beat him back; sheets of rain blew in horizontally, in spite ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington


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