catch a cold (third-person singular simple present catches a cold, present participle catching a cold, simple past and past participle caught a cold)
- (idiomatic) To contract a cold.
- (idiomatic) To encounter difficulties.
2014 March 22, Rupert Jones, “Retiring abroad? Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze”, in The Guardian:Don't catch a cold because of the state pension freeze.
2018 February 14, Gary Howes, “British Pound to Languish Below 1.10 vs. Euro as Recession Beckons in 2021 say Scandinavian Economists”, in Pound Sterling:If the U.S. goes into recession in 2021, the rest of the world is expected to catch a cold.
contract a cold
- Arabic: أُصِيبَ بِبَرْدٍ (ʔuṣība bibardin)
- Aromanian: mi-arãtsescu
- Belarusian: засту́джвацца impf (zastúdžvacca), застудзі́цца pf (zastudzícca)
- Bulgarian: простудя́вам се impf (prostudjávam se), простудя́ се pf (prostudjá se)
- Catalan: refredar-se (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 感冒 (gam2 mou6)
- Mandarin: 感冒 (zh) (gǎnmào), 受涼／受凉 (zh) (shòuliáng), 傷風／伤风 (zh) (shāngfēng)
- Czech: nachladit se pf, nastydnout pf
- Danish: blive forkølet
- Dutch: kouvatten (nl), verkouden worden
- Esperanto: malvarmumi (eo)
- Estonian: külmetuma
- Finnish: vilustua (fi)
- French: prendre froid (fr), attraper un rhume, attraper la mort (fr), attraper froid (fr)
- Galician: arrefriar (gl)
- German: sich erkälten
- Hebrew: הִצְטַנֵּן (he) (hitstanén), הִתְקָרֵר (hitkarér)
- Hungarian: megfázik (hu)
- Italian: raffreddarsi
- Japanese: 風邪を引く (ja) (かぜをひく, kaze o hiku), 風邪を召す (かぜをめす, kaze o mesu)
- Khmer: ផ្ដាសាយ (km) (phdaahsaay)
- Korean: 감기에 걸리다 (gamgi-e geollida)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latgalian: puorsaļt
- Latvian: saaukstēties
- Lithuanian: péršalti
- Macedonian: настинува impf (nastinuva), настине pf (nastine)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Mon: ဒးချာံ (daḥ khyāṁ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bli forkjølet
- Nynorsk: bli forkjølt
- Ottoman Turkish: صوغوقلامق (soğuklamak)
- Persian: سرما خوردن (fa) (sarmâ xordan), چاییدن (fa) (čāyidan)
- Polish: przeziębiać się impf, przeziębić się pf
- Portuguese: resfriar-se, pegar um resfriado, gripar
- Romanian: răci (ro)
- Russian: простужа́ться (ru) impf (prostužátʹsja), простуди́ться (ru) pf (prostudítʹsja), простыва́ть (ru) impf (prostyvátʹ), просты́ть (ru) pf (prostýtʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прехладити се pf
- Roman: prehladiti se (sh) pf
- Slovak: nachladnúť pf, prechladnúť pf
- Slovene: prehladiti se pf
- Spanish: resfriarse (es)
- Swedish: bli förkyld
- Thai: จับหวัด (jàp-wàt), เป็นหวัด (bpen-wàt)
- Ukrainian: засту́джуватися impf (zastúdžuvatysja), застуди́тися pf (zastudýtysja)
- Uzbek: shamollamoq (uz)
- Vietnamese: bị cảm lạnh
- Walloon: atraper do må (wa)
- Welsh: cael annwyd, dala annwyd (South)
- Yiddish: פֿאַרקילן זיך (farkiln zikh)
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