Idiom
catch a body
Meaning
to kill, to murder
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The dangerous criminal is known to catch a body.”
“In the gritty crime novel, the protagonist warns his rival that he is not afraid to catch a body if pushed too far.”
“The ruthless gang leader boasted of his dark history, claiming he had caught a body in every city he visited during his rise to power.”
Examples
simple
“The dangerous criminal is known to catch a body.”
contextual
“In the gritty crime novel, the protagonist warns his rival that he is not afraid to catch a body if pushed too far.”
complex
“The ruthless gang leader boasted of his dark history, claiming he had caught a body in every city he visited during his rise to power.”
Origin
The term is formed by analogy with the preexisting phrases catch a case and catch a stray.
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