Catch-22

Definition

catch /kætʃ/ v ( pt, pp caught /kↄ:t/) ၁။ လွမ္း၍ဖမ္းသည္။ I threw a ball to her and she caught it. ❍ Our dog likes catching biscuits in its mouth. ၂။ လိုက္ဖမ္းသည္။ မိသည္။ ဖမ္းမိသည္။ catch a thief ❍ Cats catch mice. ❍ How many fish did you catch? ❍ I caught him (ie met him and stopped him) just as he was leaving the building. ❍ catch (hold of) sb by the arm/throat/scruff of the neck. ၃။ တစ္စံုတစ္ခု လုပ္ေနသည္ကို အမွတ္တမဲ့ ေတြ႕သည္၊ မိ သည္။ I caught her smoking in the bathroom. ❍ I caught a boy stealing apples from the garden. ❍ You won't catch me working (ie I would never work) on a Sunday! ❍ I caught him staring at me. ❍ He caught himself wondering whether he'd made a mistake. ❍ The illness can be treated provided it's caught (ie discovered) early enough. ❍ You've caught me at a bad time. ၄။ မီသည္။ catch a bus/plane/train ❍ catch the post (ie post letters before the box is emptied). ၅။ အခ်ိန္မီအုပ္မိသည္။ I was hoping to catch you at home. ၆။ ( infml esp US ) ၾကည့္႐ႈသည္။ နားဆင္သည္။ တက္ေရာက္ သည္။ Let's eat now and maybe we could catch a movie later. ၇။ ဖ်တ္ခနဲျမင္လိုက္သည္။ အနံ႔ရလိုက္သည္။ I caught a look of surprise on her face. ❍ He caught a whiff of her perfume. ၈။ ~ (sth) (in/on sth) ၿငိသည္။ တိုက္မိသည္။ (ခတ္)မိသည္။ Her dress caught on a nail. ❍ The lock won't catch (ie cannot be fastened). ❍ He caught his thumb in the door. ❍ He caught his foot on a tree root and fell. ၉။ ေရာဂါရသည္။ catch (a) cold ❍ catch flu/pneumonia/bronchitis. ၁၀။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ Sorry, I didn't quite catch what you said. ❍ I don't catch your meaning. ၁၁။ ထိသည္။ ထိုးသည္။ The stone caught him on the side of the head. ❍ She caught him a blow on the chin. ၁၂။ မီးစြဲသည္။ မီးညိသည္။ These logs are wet: they won't catch. ၁၃။ မိေအာင္ေရးဆြဲသည္။ The artist has caught her smile perfectly. ၁၄။ ခရစ္ကက္ ကစားရာတြင္ ေဘာလံုးေျမမက်မီ ဖမ္းမိသြား၍ ေဘာလံုး႐ိုက္သူထြက္ရသည္။ n ၁။ ဖမ္းျခင္း။ ဖမ္းမိသည့္ပမာဏ။ a difficult catch ❍ a huge catch of fish. ၂။ ( infml ) (ေယာက်္ား၊ ရည္းစားအျဖစ္) ဖမ္းရန္သင့္ေတာ္သူ။ He's a good catch (ie worth getting as a boyfriend or husband). ၃။ ခ်ိတ္။ The catch on my handbag is broken. ၄။ ျမႇဳပ္ကြက္။ The house is very cheap. There must be a catch somewhere. ❏ catch-all n ၁။ ဟိုဟာသည္ဟာ။ ဟိုဒင္းသည္ဒင္း။ ၂။ ( US ) ျဗဳတ္စဗ်င္းေတာင္း ထည့္စရာ။ ❏ catch sb's attention/eye [ IDM ] အာ႐ံုစိုက္ေစသည္။ မ်က္စိက်ေစသည္။ Can you catch the waiter's eye? ❍ A newspaper headline caught his attention. ❏ catch one's breath [ IDM ] ထိတ္လန္႔၍ အသက္႐ႉမွား သည္။ He caught his breath in surprise. ❏ catch one's death (of cold) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အႀကီး အက်ယ္ အေအးမိသည္။ Don't go out without a coat: you'll catch your death. ❏ catcher n ေဘ့စ္ေဘာကစားပြဲတြင္ ႐ိုက္သူေနာက္ကေန၍ ေဘာလံုးဖမ္းသူ။ ❍ BASEBALL ❏ catch fire [ IDM ] မေတာ္တဆ မီးစြဲသည္။ She was standing too close to the fireplace and her dress caught fire. ❏ catching adj (ေရာဂါ)ကူးစက္လြယ္ေသာ။ ❏ catch it [ IDM ] ( infml ) အျပစ္ေပးခံရသည္။ အဆူအဆဲ ခံရသည္။ If your father finds you here you'll really catch it! ❏ catch the light [ IDM ] မီးေရာင္ေအာက္တြင္ ပိုလွသည္။ မီးစားသည္။ ❏ catch sb napping [ IDM ] အငိုက္မိသည္။ They were caught napping by the speed of the opposition. ❏ catch sb on the hop [ IDM ] ေျခအႂကြတြင္ ျဖတ္တိုက္ ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ The rush for fuel caught petrol companies on the hop. ❏ catch sb on the wrong foot [ IDM ] ( Brit ) … တဖ်င့္တပါးရိွခ်ိန္ ဝင္အုပ္မိသည္။ ❏ catch on (to sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လိုက္မီသည္။ သေဘာ ေပါက္သည္။ He is very quick/slow to catch on. ❏ catch on (with sb) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေခတ္စားသည္။ Mini-skirts first caught on in the 1960s. ❏ catch sb out [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ၁။ မသိ၊ မတတ္ေၾကာင္း ေပၚေစသည္။ They tried to catch her out with a difficult question. ၂။ (usu pssive) ဘာလုပ္ရမွန္းမသိ အက်ပ္႐ိုက္ေစ သည္။ Many investors were caught out by the fall in share prices. ❏ catch sb red-handed [ IDM ] လက္ပူးလက္ၾကပ္မိသည္။ ❏ catch sight of sb/sth [ IDM ] ရိပ္ခနဲျမင္လိုက္သည္။ She caught sight of a car in the distance. ❏ catch the sun [ IDM ] ေနေလာင္သည္။ Your back looks sore—you've really caught the sun today. ❏ catch-22 /kætʃ twenti 'tu:/ n [U] [ IDM ] ( sl ) (ၾကာေအး အေမ႐ိုက္၍) လြတ္လမ္းမျမင္ေသာ အေျခအေန။ the catch-22 situation facing homeless people who can't get a job without a place to live, but can't afford to pay rent without a job. See also VICIOUS CIRCLE ❏ catch up (with sb); catch sb up [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) ေရွ႕ ကလူကိုမီသြားသည္။ Go on in front. I'll soon catch you up/catch up (with you). ❍ After missing a term through illness he had to work hard to catch up (with the others). ❏ catch up on sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ မၿပီးျပတ္ေသးေသာ အလုပ္ အတြက္ အခ်ိန္ပိုလုပ္သည္။ အလုပ္ေႂကြးဆပ္သည္။ I've got a lot of work to catch up on. ၂။ မသိခဲ့သည္မ်ားကို သိေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ Come over for a chat so we can catch up on each other's news. ❏ be/get caught up in sth [ PHRV ] စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္ (သို႔) ပါဝင္ပတ္သက္သည္။ She was caught up in the anti-nuclear movement. ❏ catch sb with their pants/trousers down [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုး႐ိုးကားရားရိွခ်ိန္ အလစ္ဖမ္းမိသည္။ အလစ္မိသည္။ ❏ catchy adj ( -ier , -iest ) (ေတးဂီတ) နားဝင္ခ်ဳိ၍ မွတ္မိလြယ္ ေသာ။

Examples

1. She tossed the packet of crisps to Kate
2. who caught it with one hand.
3. ‘Can I borrow your pen?’ ‘Here
4. catch!’
5. Anne stayed close enough to catch the child if he fell.
6. Put a bucket over there to catch the drips as they fall.
7. She raced to catch the toddler before he could make it out of the front gate.
8. ‘Can’t catch me
9. ’ her brother shouted as he ran up the stairs.
10. Jack caught her as she made for the door.
11. [catch someone by the wrist/elbow/sleeve etc] : With one swift movement
12. he caught her by the wrist.
13. [catch hold of someone/something] : She caught hold of his arm and pulled him back.
14. The police say they’re doing all they can to catch the culprits.
15. I caught the next train back to London.
16. If we want to catch that bus we’ll have to leave right now.
17. [have a train/bus/plane etc to catch] : I have a train to catch
18. so we have to finish by 4.30.
19. A device used for catching flies
20. We rescued a rabbit caught in a trap.
21. Wolves hunt in packs
22. using careful strategies to catch their prey.
23. Drift nets are used mainly for catching tuna.
24. [freshly/locally caught] : Freshly caught trout
25. [catch someone doing something] : Several times she’d caught him staring at her.
26. [catch someone red-handed] : Diana was caught red-handed taking money from her mother’s purse.
27. [catch someone in the act (of doing something)] : Burglars who are caught in the act have little chance of escaping punishment.
28. [catch someone at it] : They’ve been trying to catch her at it
29. but she’s too clever.
30. The railway companies had all been caught completely unprepared by the sudden snowfalls.
31. [catch someone at a bad moment/time] : I’ve obviously caught you at a bad moment. I’ll come back later.
32. [catch a glimpse of someone/something] : People lined the streets outside the theatre to catch a glimpse of her.
33. [catch sight of someone/something] : As she went out
34. she caught sight of herself in the mirror.
35. [catch a whiff of something] : Adam caught a whiff of expensive perfume as she passed by.
36. Suddenly my attention was caught by a lorry parked a short distance ahead.
37. His campaign seems to have caught the imagination of many other Germans.
38. He caught the flu and had to stay in bed.
39. [catch something from someone/something] : Brian caught chickenpox from his nephew.
40. [catch your death (of cold)] : Get out of those wet clothes or you’ll catch your death of cold.
41. The music was so loud I didn’t catch what he said.
42. I’m sorry
43. I didn’t catch your name.
44. Call me at the office. You can usually catch me there after 8.30.
45. Margaret caught me just as I was leaving.
46. Doctors assured her that her symptoms had been caught early enough to treat.
47. Want to catch a film tonight?
48. As she ran
49. her foot caught on something and she fell.
50. I must have caught my shirt on a nail when I was moving that wood.
51. A fish in the river catches the light one second and swims off into a dark pool the next.
52. The balloon was caught by the wind and carried away.
53. He caught his opponent with a right cross to the chin.
54. Sue slipped in the yard and caught her head on the gate post.
55. It wasn’t a very radical or intellectual newspaper
56. but it caught a mood of dissent in mid-1950s America.
57. The dry twigs soon caught fire.