catch up
verb- To pick up suddenly.
- To entangle (something). · The speaker wires have got caught up with the wires from the lights.
- To involve in (something); to embroil. · That's why she got caught up in addiction.
- To be brought up to date with news. · I hadn't seen her for so long. It was great to catch up.
- To bring (someone) up to date with the news. · After Alice's vacation, her boss caught her up on policy changes.· I have to miss the end of the meeting, but you can catch me up later.
- To reach something that had been ahead. · Rose was three seconds behind, but managed to catch up with the race leader and eventually won.· I'll go ahead and you can catch up with me later.
- To compensate for or make up a deficiency. · After a slow start, they've been catching up lately.· The sales quarter ends soon and we've got to try to catch up.
- To finally overtake or overpower (someone or something) after a long period of approaching or threatening (them or it). (Said especially of self-destructive behaviours that take years to bring about negative outcomes.) · His years of drinking were catching up with him.· The company's creative accounting had finally caught up with it.
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But, you see, we have five years’ lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla.”
Why stare at a wall when you can catch up on the news?
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