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Catch Quotes
From a caught ball to a caught headline.
This page moves between literal and figurative catching, opening with a plain description of a baseball exchange before turning to the appeal of memorable catch phrases and a pointed question about what laws are really designed to capture. It shows how one simple verb stretches across very different contexts. See related plays on words in Catch Phrase quotes.
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- Closed-Minded
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- Nov 07, 2020
An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!
- Compile
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dynamic typing is not necessarily good. You get static errors at run time, which you really should be able to catch at compile time.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020