Catch on
Catch on verb - Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Both terms in one sentence
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It also doesn't help that sometimes, these new characters don't catch on and fall out of a regular role, occasionally resulting in another trope entirely.
Source: Affirmative Action Legacy -
She can't always suppress her urges, so that the resident nerd and lech, respectively, soon catch on; while the first wants to help her and get in her pants, the latter just wants to get it on with her.
Source: Manga / Otogi No Machi No Rena
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