catch heat
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Pronunciation
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Verb
catch heat (third-person singular simple present catches heat, present participle catching heat, simple past and past participle caught heat)
- (colloquial, idiomatic) To get into trouble with somebody; to be scolded or chastised.
- Synonym: catch hell
- 1989, Edwin C. Sims, Capitalism, in Spite of it All, page 296:
- Another area in which corporations have been catching heat is in the area of environmental pollution, and justifiably so.
Translations
to be scolded or chastised
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