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catch on

vb. 1 (context intransitive idiomatic English) To begin to understand; to realize. 2 (context intransitive idiomatic English) To become popular; to become commonplace; to become the standard.

WordNet
catch on

  1. v. understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on" [syn: get wise, get onto, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it]

  2. become popular; "This fashion caught on in paris"

Usage examples of "catch on".

She retrieved her mule, thumbed off the safety catch on her stunner, and went forth to face the bandits.

I didn't catch on at the time, but give me time and clobber me over the head with a two-by-four and eventually I'll catch on to anything.

The disk was sensitive to radar impulses, and with no more effort than snapping a thumb catch on the rifle, the guard could locate and paralyze the nearest disk-wearing inmate.

Human beings do it when they want to, and sometimes you can catch on with a ballet company or maybe a nightclub chorus line when they organize one.

He was a typical hustlerone of the guards prepared to see the catch on board the waiting transport.

Thanks, but She struggled with the catch on one likely looking box.

I have no doubt that he went to watch for the opportune moment for releasing the catch on the reel.