to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
to catch (a wild animal, fish, insect, baseball, etc.); to capture
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
capture (of a suspect, criminal, etc.); arrest
to arrest; to capture; to seize
policeman; thieftaker; method of catching criminals
to be caught (of a wild animal, fish, baseball, etc.); to be captured; to be able to catch; to be able to capture
roundup (criminals, animals, etc.); manhunt; crackdown; swoop; raid
mousetrap; rattrap; rat poison; speed trap; Japanese rat snake
counting one's chickens before they're hatched; (lit.) counting raccoon dog skins before they have been caught
policeman's rope (used for restraining criminals)
fishing, esp. using a net or trap; catching fish
(arch.) policeman; (arch.) official in charge of imprisoning offenders; art of defeating (and capturing) an opponent with one's bare hands
to be caught by the enemy
bird catcher; bird handler (oft. chicken); bird catching; bird handling (oft. chicken)
to be seized with fear; to be seized with panic
to pounce on someone's words; to cavil at someone's words; to trip someone up with their own words
hard to figure out; elusive; slippery; vague; subtle
(game of) catch-the-child
prisoner's base (children's game); (arch.) man-eating monster
detective story (esp. one from the Edo period featuring thief-takers); detective's memoirs; thief taker's memoirs
prejudiced opinion; conventional ideas
the doting parent's purse is plundered; (lit.) the thief caught turns out to be one's own son
empty vessels make the most sound; (lit.) the meowing cat does not catch the mouse
starting something in the eleventh hour; have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain; don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen; braiding the rope only after the thief is caught
key to understanding; point (e.g. of an argument)
taking a wife by kidnapping a woman passing by on the road