catch on

• “It is hard to know whether Coco Chanel would have approved but it is unlikely that torch-lit shoes are going to catch on amongst the couture set.”

  The Guardian: Statue of Coco sets scene for Chanel show

• “So we propped open the doors, but though she would fly up and sit on the door-sill, she didn't catch on that it was a way out.”

  Zombie Lover

• “It would not catch on ceilings or doorjambs, and yet it too had almost the same power as katana.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set

• “Chameleon-stupid would not catch on until too late; that nadir of intelligence worked against him as well as for him.”

  A Spell For Chameleon

• “At the awful juncture referred to, when vainly essaying to catch on to the connection in the manuscript, and when being guyed unmercifully by some three or four hundred new-made friends, scarcely a dozen of whom were known by sight, it became evident that a crisis was imminent and a change of base essential.”

  Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,

• “He forced himself to look at the linenfold panelling on the walls, to examine the catch on the windows, to stare with intent interest at the Thames rolling by, its surface covered with small boats and its banks lined with people fishing.”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “May we catch on to the blessings in the center of our “dismayals.””

  Simon & Schuster: GOD Will Make a Way

• ““You and Kangaroo will catch on like wax, as far as ideas go,” Jack prognosticated.”

  Kangaroo

• “They considered, and concluded that Karia should not carry Cube to Castle Roogna, because the royal folk there were all Magicians or Sorceresses and would be too apt to catch on that she had a secret mission if she traveled that way.”

  Cube Route

• “A grapnel soared high over the Espiritu Santo's bows to fall and catch on the beakhead.”

  Sharpe's Devil

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