be caught up in

Meaning

1. Oxford80% of films

   to become involved in sth, especially when you do not want to be

In the movies · 9

• Every time I go to New York, I get caught up in this...The End of the Tour2015
• Mama, you're still caught up in that Christian superstition?Whatever Works2009
• you get caught up in the dreams he was building and the magic.Spielberg2017
• Probably got caught up in it.Everest2015
• I was really caught up in the ambiance.A Simple Favor2018
• That technology has caught up with the spy world.Kingsman: The Secret Service2014
• It's my past that's caught up with me, not yours.Dolittle2020
• Uh almost caught upUncharted2022

Learn it in full scenes

• The End of the Tour2015
  • Lipsky Pitches the Wallace Story
  • Dave Wallace Doesn't Drink
  • Wallace and Lipsky First Meeting
• Whatever Works2009
  • Boris Breaks the Fourth Wall
  • Boris Panics and Jumps Out the Window
  • Boris Takes Melodie In
• Spielberg2017
  • Spielberg Hides the Shark
  • Spielberg Takes the Camera
  • Spielberg Gets His Universal Contract

From the same entry

• catch your breath
• catch your death
• catch eye
• catch it
• catch napping
• catch on the hop
• catch red - handed
• catch with their pants down
• off balance
• be in a cleft stick
• the early bird catches the worm
• catch fancy

More phrasal verbs

• keep out of
• call in
• keep on
• take to
• turn into
• sell out
• wind up
• come up
• go out
• listen up
• start out
• break into