catch hold of

Synonyms

catch grapple lay hands on

Antonyms

emancipate let go

Examples

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. Gabriel García Márquez

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul - like pincers to catch hold of God. Simone Weil

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they? Richard Adams

The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers. Alan Watts

Words in the phrase

catch hold of

Close letter words and terms

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