See catch me on Wiktionary
{ "etymology_text": "Short for \"you'd never catch me doing that\" or similar.", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery:", "text": "I wished at first to persuade him to give me lessons in the office, but could not succeed: “No, no, lad;” said he, “catch me going in there: I would just as soon venture into a nest of porcupines.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "There is not the remotest possibility of one carrying out the deed or action suggested." ], "id": "en-catch_me-en-intj-QLQkp-ch", "links": [ [ "remote", "remote" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "carrying out", "carry out" ], [ "deed", "deed" ], [ "action", "action" ], [ "suggest", "suggest" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) There is not the remotest possibility of one carrying out the deed or action suggested." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "word": "catch me" }
{ "etymology_text": "Short for \"you'd never catch me doing that\" or similar.", "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "intj", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English colloquialisms", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English interjections", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery:", "text": "I wished at first to persuade him to give me lessons in the office, but could not succeed: “No, no, lad;” said he, “catch me going in there: I would just as soon venture into a nest of porcupines.”", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "There is not the remotest possibility of one carrying out the deed or action suggested." ], "links": [ [ "remote", "remote" ], [ "possibility", "possibility" ], [ "carrying out", "carry out" ], [ "deed", "deed" ], [ "action", "action" ], [ "suggest", "suggest" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(colloquial) There is not the remotest possibility of one carrying out the deed or action suggested." ], "tags": [ "colloquial" ] } ], "word": "catch me" }
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