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List of synonyms from "catch at straws" to synonyms from "catch-phrase"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms catch in act, catch on to, catch off guard, catch one short, catch forty winks, catch offguard and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Catch at straws
- Catch breath
- Catch drift
- Catch eye
- Catch fire
- Catch flies
- Catch forty winks
- Catch hold of
- Catch in act
- Catch in the act
- Catch off balance
- Catch off-balance
- Catch off-guard
- Catch off guard
- Catch offbalance
- Catch offguard
- Catch on
- Catch on fire
- Catch on to
- Catch one breath
- Catch one's breath
- Catch one short
- Catch ones breath
- Catch-phrase
Definition of the day : « catch flies »
- As in distract : verb divert attention; confuse
- As in divert : verb take attention away
- But both of us know the proverb about what you catch flies with.
- Extract from : « Rope » by Holworthy Hall
- Was it fair to catch flies on my Sunset on Arran before the paint was dry?
- Extract from : « Cats » by W. Gordon Stables
- Sometimes they let me out of the cage and I fly about the room and catch flies.
- Extract from : « Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [January, 1897] » by Various
- Kizzie liked to perch on my finger and catch flies for his dinner.
- Extract from : « Adopting An Abandoned Farm » by Kate Sanborn
- Swallows wheeled in wide, descending spirals from mud villages under the cornices to catch flies.
- Extract from : « Greyfriars Bobby » by Eleanor Atkinson
- They sit on my breakfast tray and catch flies, and hang in a bunch by their tails, and reach out after my hand.
- Extract from : « Letters from the Cape » by Lady Duff Gordon
- Lizards crawl over the walls and ceilings, but they are harmless, and catch flies.
- Extract from : « Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas » by W. Hastings Macaulay
- The red-headed woodpecker has learned to catch flies like a common flycatcher.
- Extract from : « The Children's Book of Birds » by Olive Thorne Miller
- Sometimes he would sit on their hands or heads and catch flies for himself, which he soon did with great dexterity.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I » by Various
- Do you suppose that this is part of its necessary economy, and that a swallow could not catch flies unless it lived in a hole?
- Extract from : « Love's Meinie » by John Ruskin