catch hell

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

catch hell (third-person singular simple present catches hell, present participle catching hell, simple past and past participle caught hell)

1. (idiomatic) To be severely reprimanded, punished, or beaten.
   • 2018 July 10, Jesse Hassenger, “Improbably but amusingly, Hotel Transylvania 3 notches a series best”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     It’s not exactly a Pixar-level examination of complicated family dynamics, and the movie still has plenty of knuckled-headed, Sandler-style boys-will-be-dumbasses shtick: Children everywhere will surely thrill to the sub-subplot about Frank catching hell about his gambling problem from his wife, Eunice (Fran Drescher)!

Synonyms

• catch it
• cop it
• get it

Translations

catch heat — see catch heat