CATCH IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catch it mean? 

• CATCH IT (verb)
  The verb CATCH IT has 1 sense:

1. receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded

  Familiarity information: CATCH IT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATCH IT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Context example:

I really caught it the other day!

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

And when he did catch it, he leapt to equality at once.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In the forest roams a unicorn which does great harm, and you must catch it first.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Both types of malaria produce similar symptoms in people who catch it — high fever, chills, headaches and muscular pains — although those of ‘monkey malaria’ are more benign than those of the vivax type.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

You cannot catch it from people.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

When he sees der appetite he will catch it und come to preak-fast.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had a heart for either of the Miss Musgroves, if they could catch it; a heart, in short, for any pleasing young woman who came in his way, excepting Anne Elliot.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Then it would catch it up again and come bounding swiftly along the path I had taken.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come to-day by quarter-past ten train if you can catch it.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You can catch it from a person who has the infection and coughs or sneezes.

(Diphtheria, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

I was anxious to hurry my work, for I knew that Joseph—the Mr. Harrison whom you saw just now—was in town, and that he would travel down to Woking by the eleven o’clock train, and I wanted if possible to catch it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)