Idiom
catch hands
Meaning
To take a punch; to get hit, especially with the hand or fist.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Keep talking like that and you will catch hands.”
“He started a fight in the bar and ended up catching hands from the bouncer.”
“The aggressive stranger quickly realized he had provoked the wrong person when he caught hands for his insults.”
Examples
simple
“Keep talking like that and you will catch hands.”
contextual
“He started a fight in the bar and ended up catching hands from the bouncer.”
complex
“The aggressive stranger quickly realized he had provoked the wrong person when he caught hands for his insults.”
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