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catch-as-catch-can

[catch-as-catch-can] {adj. phr.} Using any means or method; unplanned; free. * /Rip van Winkle seems to have led a catch-as-catch-can life./ * /Politics is rather a catch-as-catch-can business./ Compare: [HIT-OR-MISS]. […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

catch-as-catch-can

[catch-as-catch-can] (1) {adv. phr.} In a free manner; in any way possible; in the best way you can. * /On moving day everything is packed and we eat meals catch-as-catch-can./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

catch

[catch] See: [EARLY BIRD CATCHES THE WORM], [FAIR CATCH], [SHOESTRING CATCH]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

shoestring catch

[shoestring catch] {n.} A catch of a hit baseball just before it hits the ground. * /The left fielder made a shoestring catch of a line drive to end the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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