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catch someone at their own game

catch someone at their own game is the alternative form of beat someone at their own game.

Meaning of beat someone at their own game

Verb

beat someone at their own game (third-person singular simple present beats someone at their own game, present participle beating someone at their own game, simple past beat someone at their own game, past participle beaten someone at their own game or (colloquial) beat someone at their own game)

  1. (figuratively) To successfully use someone's methods and strategies against them.

Forms of catch someone at their own game

third-person singular presentcatches someone at their own game
present participlecatching someone at their own game
past participlecaught someone at their own game
pastcaught someone at their own game

Questions about catch someone at their own game

What is catch someone at their own game the alternative form of?
Catch someone at their own game is the alternative form of beat someone at their own game.

Words near catch someone at their own game in the dictionary

  1. catch ropes
  2. catch sight of
  3. catch some rays
  4. catch some z's
  5. catch some zs
  6. catch someone at their own game
  7. catch someone napping
  8. catch someone with their pants down
  9. catch someone's drift
  10. catch someone's eye
  11. catch someone's fancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catch someone at their own game (page history and authors); beat someone at their own game (page history and authors). 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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