Caught on
Both terms in one sentence
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Bad Liar: When Ron was accidentally roped into a poker game, one of the other players caught on that he had bluffing tells: no eye contact, touching the face, shallow breath.
- CGI caught on much sooner in broadcasting than it did in film, largely due to the smaller budgets involved, and most of its appearances on TV were in advertising, Station Identification and educational shows like The Electric Company (1971) due to its strange but eye-catching appearance.
- The Master from Doctor Who has been killed off Deader Than Dead and revived three times in the TV canon, through being caught on fire, being eaten by the Eye of Harmony and deliberately refusing to regenerate after getting shot by his wife.
Source: Staying Alive
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