"catch oneself on" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2011, Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, page 68",
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        "To stop being silly; to behave in the proper, expected way."
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        "(Ireland, colloquial, chiefly imperative) To stop being silly; to behave in the proper, expected way."
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