catch up with

Meaning

1. Oxford50% of films

   to reach sb who is ahead by going faster

2. Editorial40% of films

   to meet or talk with someone, usually later, said when leaving, postponing, or going to join them

3. Oxford5% of films

   to reach the same level or standard as sb who was better or more advanced

4. Oxford5% of films

   to finally start to cause problems for sb after they have managed to avoid this for some time

   So, don't take gravity too lightly or it'll catch up with you.

In the movies · 35

• Finally caught up with us, huh?M*A*S*H1970
• So, don't take gravity too lightly or it'll catch up with you.The Sword in the Stone1963
• But what happens to all this when the fact that you've never won anything catches up with you?Arthur the King2024
• Worried we'll catch up with them?19172019
• Thanks, John. I'll catch up with you.United 932006
• I shall catch up with you directly.Persuasion2007
• How about I just catch up with you later?422013
• I was gonna catch up with some friends.The Spectacular Now2013

Learn it in full scenes

• M*A*S*H1970
  • Hawkeye and Duke Report for Duty
  • Mulcahy Teaches Ho-Jon to Read
  • Hawkeye and Duke Want the Chaplain Out
• Arthur the King2024
  • Michael's Team Fights the Tide
  • Michael Hustles for a Comeback
  • Michael Pitches for the Dominican Race
• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack

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

• be cut out for
• sit up
• stand up to
• come together
• sit about
• go back to
• root for
• turn back
• go without
• take it out on
• take up
• add to