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Expand your Vocabulary
“Catch”
by Tom Wiseman
You can catch a ball:
i
If you’re running in a race, you can catch up with the person in
front of you:
ii
Joe wants to catch up with Frank.
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It also works for business:
iii
Gasprom’s profits caught up with BP’s in 2012.
When you’re tired, you have to stop and catch your breath:
iv
When life is hard and you get lucky or things get easier, you
catch a break:
v
After he lost his job, they caught a break when she won the lottery.
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When someone sees you doing something bad, you get caught:
vi
He got caught trying to escape prison.
When you get in trouble, you catch some heat:
vii
He caught some heat for going on Facebook during work.
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