Timeline for How do you express that you successfully catch a person and prevent him from falling down?
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| Oct 31, 2020 at 16:19 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Oct 31, 2020 at 16:19 | comment | added | Tom | I think I got it wrong, probally, the robber fell & the policeman caught him. oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/… | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | JavaLatte | @Tom please provide links when you quote references. oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/… The expression that you refer to is generally only used metaphorically, to mean that you rescued somebody when they had some bad luck. See these examples: google.com/… | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 13:41 | comment | added | Tom | This is from Oxford "I caught him when he fell." how do you explain this? | |
| Oct 31, 2020 at 9:20 | history | answered | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 4.0 |