| 释义 |
catch someone out1Detect that someone has done something wrong or made a mistake: his tone suggested he’d caught her out in some misdemeanour...- A couple of weeks ago in the US, the singer was caught out miming to the wrong song.
- The Government was caught out and exposed, but time and time again we are seeing this Government exercising duplicity in the messages it delivers to New Zealanders.
- When Georgia let it slip about that book they're publishing we saw a chance to catch him out and I volunteered to go undercover.
1.1Put someone in a difficult situation for which they are unprepared: you might get caught out by the weather...- That might not strike you as too difficult, but the final part will surely catch you out.
- The going was quite easy apart from the odd deep pot that that catches you out by surprise.
- The stages are very varied, with slow and quick portions and no particular surprises to catch you out, and that's a good thing.
2 Cricket Dismiss a batsman by catching the ball before it touches the ground.Opening the second innings the batsman was caught out for a duck....- Australia's Simon Katich is caught out by England's Marcus Trescothick.
- After 75 minutes Blanc just managed to nick a ball away from Basturk as he waited to strike, but the ball came flashing back in and caught Nicky Butt out.
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