old-fashioned

to complain angrily about something and to cause a lot of trouble for the people who are responsible for it.

They know that the children's parents will raise Cain if they're excluded from classes.

• catch breath
• catch cold
• catch dead to rights
• catch death!
• catch death of cold!
• catch eye
• catch hell
• catch in the act
• catch it
• catch napping
• catch off guard
• catch on the hop
• catch red-handed
• catch sight of
• catch sight of someone
• catch sight of something
• catch someone cold
• catch someone dead to rights
• catch someone in the act
• catch someone off guard
• catch someone on the hop
• catch someone red-handed
• catch someone's eye
• catch someone with fingers in the till
• catch someone with hand in the till