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词组 catch as catch can
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catch as catch can
achieved any way that is possible and not in a planned way.
Without a school to go to, her education was catch as catch can.

catch as catch can

Done by any means or in any possible way, often haphazardly. The restaurant was so busy during dinner that getting service was catch as catch can. When you're a surgical intern, sleep is simply catch as catch can in between cases.

catch-as-catch-can

With, by, or having whatever is available; as best as or in any way possible. Any new parent can tell you that sleep is catch-as-catch-can once your baby is born. There was a period in college when I was out of work and had to live catch-as-catch-can.

catch as catch can

By whatever means or in any way possible, as in There was no formal language program; one simply learned Spanish catch as catch can. This term, in slightly varying versions but with the same meaning, dates from the late 1300s.

catch as catch can

By any method that can be used; without any specific plan or order. Variants of this term go back as far as the fourteenth century (“Was none in sight but cacche who that cacche might,” John Gower, ca. 1394) and appeared in John Heywood’s 1546 collection of proverbs (“Catch that catch may”). More specifically, it is the name of both a children’s game and a style of wrestling (also called freestyle) in which the wrestlers may get a hold on each other anyhow and anywhere.
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