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The pause between the throw and the having, where everything could still go wrong.
means To grab or intercept something in motion, to take hold of it before it gets away — whether a ball, a cold, a glimpse, or a meaning.
from From Old North French 'cachier,' to chase or hunt, which traces back to Latin 'captare,' to try to seize — itself a frequentative of 'capere,' to take. So 'catch' began as the chasing, not the grabbing; the same Latin root chases through 'capture,' 'captive,' and 'capable.' Curiously, 'chase' is its identical twin, born from the same word down a different road — one kept the pursuit, the other claimed the prize.
- hidden cost
- Every offer with a catch hides its price in plain sight
- fishing roots
- A day's catch once meant survival, not sport
- baseball faith
- A dropped third strike lets a struck-out batter run
- romance slang
- Calling someone a catch dates to 1700s marriage markets
- grammar trap
- Catch-22 names a problem that forbids its own solution
catch of the day — restaurant practice of serving the freshest fish available, typically whatever was caught that morning
catch-22 — joseph heller's 1961 novel, now synonymous with paradoxical situations
the catch — willie mays' famous over-the-shoulder grab in game 1 of the 1954 world series