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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 flies, catch at straws, catch off-guard, catch breath, catch on fire, catch-phrase 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