Catch up
Catch up verb - To catch or hold as if in a net.
Both terms in one sentence
- This can also happen with nations; many a former superpower has failed to catch up with their peers and promptly gotten steamrolled.
Source: Can't Catch Up - The Amazing World of Gumball has this happen during one of the season finales in which all their actions over the past episodes catch up to them and the whole town starts chasing them.
Source: Escalating Chase - And what is going to happen when Aeka and Ryoko finally catch up to Mihoshi?
Source: Fanfic Recs / Tenchi Muyo!
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Happen and Catch up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 08, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/catch_up/happen
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