catch up

Meaning

1. Oxford45% of films

   to reach sb who is ahead by going faster

2. Editorial35% of films

   to meet someone and talk about what you have each been doing since you last saw each other

3. Editorial15% of films

   to do something you did not have time for earlier so that you are no longer behind

In the movies · 116

• You'll know the devil if I catch up with you!The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001
• I'll catch up with you. I don't know when, but I'll catch up.Red River1948
• Wait a sec, I haven't had a chance to catch up with you yet.Shiva Baby2021
• I'll catch up.Zombieland2009
• We'll catch up.The Way Back2010
• You'll catch up.The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse2022
• I'll catch up.Tenet2020
• I'll catch up later.The House with a Clock in Its Walls2018

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

• deal with
• look after yourself
• stay away
• break up
• stay out
• hang out
• lie down
• look forward to
• sleep in
• look out
• take over
• keep up