catch hell

catch hell

English

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Verb

catch hell (third-person singular simple present catches hell, present participle catching hell, simple past and past participle caught hell)

  1. (slang, idiomatic) To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
    Synonyms: catch it, cop it, get it
    • 2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club‎[1], archived from the original on 9 July 2018:
      It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife, Eunice (Fran Drescher)!
  2. (slang, idiomatic, uncommon) To experience troubling or difficult times.
    • 1972, Bobby Womack, “Across 110th Street”, in Across 110th Street:
      The family on the other side of town / Would catch hell without a ghetto around / In every city you find the same thing going down / Harlem is the capital of every ghetto town / Help me sing it
    • 1977, Natalie Cole, “I'm Catching Hell”, in Unpredictable:
      I'm catching hell living here alone / Hmm, I never realized, oh, Lord / That you mean so much to me / I'm catching hell living here alone

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