Pounce on
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Both terms in one sentence
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Chekhov's Gun: The $500,000 dollars in drug money sitting in a rented locker at the airport; it's there for the taking, with the snag that it's been sussed out by DEA agents who are have it under 24/7 surveillance waiting to pounce on whoever opens the locker and bust them.
Source: Film / Get Shorty
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Snag and Pounce on. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pounce_on/snag
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