catch-as-catch-can

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself;intermittent.My efforts lately have beencatch-as-catch-can, not carefully planned.1952,Ralph Ellison,Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page x:My wife did indeed provide the more dependable contributions to our income while mine camecatch-as-catch-can.; (wrestling)Relating tocatch wrestling, a folk style of wrestling with minimal restrictions.1980, Walter Armstrong,Wrestling, page x:In Lancashire and the north of Ireland, the catch-hold orcatch-as-catch-cansystem still finds favour.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary