to catch the bus
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- phrasal verb
:
tomar el autobús
- "After assuring her aunt that she would be okay, Dee caught the bus from Memphis en route to TSU.
- go catch the bus
- catch the bus to school
- catch the bus home
So out catching the waiting taxi means he can't catch the bus or or the next arriving taxi.
- So out catching the waiting taxi means he can't catch the bus or or the next arriving taxi.
- They were kids who played sports, who ate food, who caught the bus, who.
- I mean, I did, I trained for eight years and, and, and The thing is, my car broke down and I would like catch the bus.
Examples
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We have five minutes to catch the bus.
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I'm gonna catch the 6:40 bus.
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Man, I had to catch the bus.
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Let her catch the bus home.
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Helen left for school just in time to catch the bus.
Fiction book (1994) -
Then Daniel would catch the bus to school.
Fiction book (1997) -
If you hurry, you can catch the bus to Faragut.
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Why don't you go up to the highway and catch the bus?
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I caught the bus.
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We have five minutes to catch the bus.
Synonyms
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Go somewhere by bus
Antonyms
How Timely
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to board a bus before it departs' is directly derivable from combining 'catch' (to seize or get hold of) with 'bus' (a vehicle), where 'catch' is used metaphorically to mean 'manage to get on'. This compositional and cross-linguistically common pattern makes the expression predictable and immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Catch the bus comes from the image of someone running to catch a moving bus before it drives away, so it means 'to get on' the bus in time.