List of antonyms from "catastrophe" to antonyms from "catch in the act"
Discover our 430 antonyms available for the terms "catch forty winks, catch hold of, catcalled, catch a glimpse of, catch drift, catch eye" and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the antonyms associated with it.
- Catastrophe (32 antonyms)
- Catastrophic (5 antonyms)
- Catatonia (25 antonyms)
- Catawampus (8 antonyms)
- Catcalled (7 antonyms)
- Catcalling (7 antonyms)
- Catch (39 antonyms)
- Catch 22 (52 antonyms)
- Catch-22's (52 antonyms)
- Catch 22's (52 antonyms)
- Catch a glimpse of (11 antonyms)
- Catch a likeness (4 antonyms)
- Catch a wink (5 antonyms)
- Catch act (9 antonyms)
- Catch at straws (7 antonyms)
- Catch breath (8 antonyms)
- Catch drift (23 antonyms)
- Catch eye (19 antonyms)
- Catch fire (5 antonyms)
- Catch flies (23 antonyms)
- Catch forty winks (5 antonyms)
- Catch hold of (14 antonyms)
- Catch in act (9 antonyms)
- Catch in the act (9 antonyms)
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