catch as catch can

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,chieflyimperative)To use any available means or methods.1698,John Fryer, “Carries Us toJelfa; Where Is Treated of theGabers, or OriginalPersians, theArmenians,Georgians, andEuropeArtisans”, inA New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681.[…], London:[…]R[obert]R[oberts]for Ri[chard]Chiswell, letter V (Travels intoPersia),page266:Which being done, the Women run in the dark tocatch as catch can; and whatever Lot they light on,[…]

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