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catch it

catch it verb: to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.

Verb

catch it (third-person singular simple present catches it, present participle catching it, simple past and past participle caught it)

  1. (idiomatic) To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
    • "You'll catch it, you know," said Tom, nodding his head in an admonitory manner, and hesitating a little as he took the scissors.1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
    • a. 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist
      If they beat us, we shall catch it, and serve us right.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see catch, it.

catch it meaning in Malayalam

catch it in Malayalam

be scolded, be reprimanded, be rebuked
ശാസിക്കപ്പെടുക, താക്കീതുചെയ്യപ്പെടുക, വഴക്കുപറയപ്പെടുക, ശകാരിക്കപ്പെടുക, ഭർത്സിക്കപ്പെടുക, ഗർഹിക്കപ്പെടുക

Synonyms of catch it

Forms of catch it

third-person singular presentcatches it
present participlecatching it
past participlecaught it
pastcaught it

Questions about catch it

What does catch it mean?
Catch it means to be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
What is catch it in Malayalam?
Catch it in Malayalam is ശാസിക്കപ്പെടുക, താക്കീതുചെയ്യപ്പെടുക, വഴക്കുപറയപ്പെടുക. See Catch it meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is catch it?
Catch it is a verb.
What is the past tense of catch it?
The past tense of catch it is caught it.

Words near catch it in the dictionary

  1. catch heat
  2. catch hell
  3. catch hold
  4. catch in 4k
  5. catch in possession
  6. catch it
  7. catch it in the neck
  8. catch lacking
  9. catch me
  10. catch napping
  11. catch no ball

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch it (page history and authors); catch it (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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