catch-as-catch-can

  • 11catch-as-catch-can — /kach euhz kach kan /, adj. 1. Also, catch can. taking advantage of any opportunity; using any method that can be applied: a catch as catch can life, as an itinerant handyman. adv. 2. without specific plan or order: They lived catch as catch can …

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  • 12Catch-as-catch-can — Typischer Wrestling Ring Wrestling (engl. Ringen), im deutschen Sprachraum auch als Catchen bezeichnet (letztere Bezeichnung lehnt sich an den älteren Begriff Catch Wrestling an), ist eine populäre Schaukampf Sportart, die besonders in Japan, den …

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  • 13catch-as-catch-can — 1. adjective a) intermittent; only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself My efforts lately have been catch as catch can, not carefully planned. b) of a form of amateur freestyle wrestling (catch wrestling) Which being done, the… …

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  • 14catch-as-catch-can(2) — {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 …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 15catch-as-catch-can(2) — {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 …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 16catch-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./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 17catch-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./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 18catch as catch can —    This means that people should try to get something any way they can.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    This expression means that you try to get something in any way possible.     It s difficult to get much sleep with the new baby it s… …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 19catch as catch can — no order, get what you can    The Clearance Sale was catch as catch can each one for himself …

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  • 20catch-as-catch-can — adjective Date: 1764 using any available means or method ; hit or miss < a catch as catch can system that relies on borrowed judges Patricia Nealon > …

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