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catch oneself on

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catch oneself on

  1. (Ireland, colloquial, chiefly imperative) To stop being silly; to behave in the proper, expected way; to recover sensibility.
    • 2011, Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land, page 68:
      "Big Pat's still wearing his hair like two floppy ears on a dog. He's amazing: wouldn't you think his wife or someone would tell him to catch himself on."
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