catch it
Verb

catch it

  1. (idiomatic) To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
    • a. 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist
      If they beat us, we shall catch it, and serve us right.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see catch, it
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