catch on
— phrasal verb with catch uk/kætʃ/us/kætʃ/verb caught, caught
(BECOME POPULAR)
C1 to become fashionable or popular:
I wonder if the game will ever catch on with young people?
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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling
- accomplish
- achieve
- acquit
- actualize
- attain
- bear
- go places idiom
- go the whole hog idiom
- grade
- groove
- have the last laugh idiom
- have your/its moments idiom
- kill
- rise
- somewhere
- stand out
- streak ahead
- succeed
- sunset
- take hold idiom
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(UNDERSTAND)
C2 informal to understand, especially after a long time:
He doesn't take hints very easily, but he'll catch on (to what you're saying) eventually.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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