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застать за; застать врасплох; застать время
gen. catch (застигнуь кого-либо где-либо или в каком-либо состоянии: It's a good thing I caught you. • We seem to be catching you in the middle of a party. • You've caught him in a charitable mood. Также о каком-либо времени: I am old enough to have caught the end of grammar teaching and to have learnt, at least, what verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives are. • But I'm glad I caught those times too, they brought a lot of inspiration to my childhood.); meet with; surprise; cop; reach; take; get on to (кого-либо); find (I found him in bed with my daughter. • Porter, he must've come home and found Walker still here.); get; walk in on (someone doing something; врасплох: I walked in on my daughter kissing the boy next door. • I was probably 17 years old and walked in on my friend playing with Legos. • I walked in on friend's little brother as he was putting some of his mum's concealer powder on his butt. • The court found Sister Abhaya had walked in on them while they were engaging in a sex act in the kitchen, and killed her to conceal their sins. • Rochester Police Chief Cynthia Herriott-Sullivan said two officers responding to that call walked in on the robbery in progress. Рина Грант); run into (someone doing something – кого-либо за каким-либо занятием: Michael ran into his son doing something suspicious. 4uzhoj); caught
Gruzovik discover (pf of заставать)
austral., slang spring
inf. cop (на месте преступления)
law catch somebody in the act (Ivan Pisarev); get somebody busted with the guns (Ivan Pisarev); catch somebody at the crime scene (Ivan Pisarev); catch somebody's finger on the trigger (Ivan Pisarev); capture (Ivan Pisarev); apprehend (Ivan Pisarev)
Makarov. catch someone out
Makarov., inf. get hold of (someone); о страхе, болезни)
застать: 214 phrases in 22 subjects
Advertising1
American usage, not spelling3
Boxing1
Chess1
Cliche / convention1
Contextual meaning1
Figurative2
Figure of speech1
Forensics1
General125
Ice hockey2
Idiomatic7
Informal6
Law3
Makarov49
Mass media1
Politics1
Psychology2
Slang3
Teenager slang1
Telecommunications1
Vulgar1