Idiom
catch a packet
Meaning
To be fired upon.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The soldiers had to hide or they would catch a packet.”
“As they crossed the open field, the unit came under heavy fire and caught a packet.”
“The infantrymen realized they had walked into an ambush when they caught a packet from the hidden machine gun nests.”
Examples
simple
“The soldiers had to hide or they would catch a packet.”
contextual
“As they crossed the open field, the unit came under heavy fire and caught a packet.”
complex
“The infantrymen realized they had walked into an ambush when they caught a packet from the hidden machine gun nests.”
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