catch cold

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• catch cold — verb come down with a cold • Hypernyms: ↑catch • Verb Frames: Somebody s * * * catch cold 1. To contract a cold 2. To make an unexpected loss • • • Main Entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• catch cold — {v. phr.} 1. or[take cold] To get a common cold weather sickness that causes a running nose, sneezing, and sometimes sore throat and fever or other symptoms. * /Don t get your feet wet or you ll catch cold./ 2. {informal} To catch unprepared or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• catch cold — {v. phr.} 1. or[take cold] To get a common cold weather sickness that causes a running nose, sneezing, and sometimes sore throat and fever or other symptoms. * /Don t get your feet wet or you ll catch cold./ 2. {informal} To catch unprepared or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• catch\ cold — v. phr. 1. or take cold To get a common cold weather sickness that causes a running nose, sneezing, and sometimes sore throat and fever or other symptoms. Don t get your feet wet or you ll catch cold. 2. informal To catch unprepared or not ready… …   Словарь американских идиом

• catch cold — catch (someone) cold American to surprise someone with an event, a question, or a piece of news they are not expecting. You caught me cold with this news I didn t know anything about it …   New idioms dictionary

• catch cold — get a cold, come down with a cold, became infected with a cold …   English contemporary dictionary

• Catch — Catch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caught}or {Catched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Catching}. Catched is rarely used.] [OE. cacchen, OF. cachier, dialectic form of chacier to hunt, F. chasser, fr. (assumend) LL. captiare, for L. capture, V. intens. of capere to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• catch a cold — (catch cold) be sick with a cold, come down with a cold    I caught a cold while we were in Vancouver …   English idioms

• cold — [kōld] adj. [ME < OE (Anglian) cald < IE base * gel , cold > COOL, Ger kalt, L gelidus] 1. of a temperature significantly or noticeably lower than average, normal, expected, or comfortable; very chilly; frigid [a cold wind] 2. a) without …   English World dictionary

• cold — [[t]ko͟ʊld[/t]] ♦♦ colder, coldest, colds 1) ADJ GRADED Something that is cold has a very low temperature or a lower temperature than is normal or acceptable. Rinse the vegetables under cold running water... He likes his tea neither too hot nor… …   English dictionary

• cold — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 lack of heat; low temperature ADJECTIVE ▪ biting, bitter, extreme, freezing ▪ winter VERB + COLD ▪ feel …   Collocations dictionary