Synonym: cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twig. Similar words: catch, switch on, catches, watch out for, catch fire, catch up with, watch, patch. Meaning: v. 1. understand, usually after some initial difficulty 2. become popular.
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(61) Congress eliminated tax credits for solar energy, ethanol could not compete with cheap gasoline and a wind farm boomlet in California failed to catch on in the rest of the country.
(62) It took her a while to catch on to what we meant.
(63) And if design concepts from the YCC catch on, it could mean a shakeup is in store for male-dominated design teams in nearly every industry.
(64) Meeting dinner: Children touch a recent catch on July 30 at Wada Port near Tokyo, one of five ports in Japan from which whale hunting is allowed.
(65) I didn - t quite catch on to what you said just now. Would you say it again?
(66) After a few days on the job[http://sentencedict.com], you'll catch on to what you're doing.
(67) This has the vital significance to catch on the kernel layer of operating system, to dialyse process principle, to discover and study the new Scheduling Algorithm.
(68) I don't quite catch on to what he is saying.
(69) Hang in there! You'll soon catch on to the language.
(70) It took Cindy to catch on to what Bill was saying.
(71) Being a foreigner, Carl did not catch on to the joke.
(72) Slow up a bit you're talking so quickly that I can't catch on well.
(73) In fact, the PDA idea also failed to catch on with potential customers.
(74) I didn't catch on to what he said because he was mumbling.