Betekenis van catch up with sb In het Nederlands

• 0 If something bad that you have done or that has been happening to you catches up with you, it begins to cause problems for you:

  • His lies will catch up with him one day.

• 1 If people in authority catch up with you, they discover that you have been doing something wrong and often punish you for it:

  • They had been selling stolen cars for years before the police caught up with them.

• 2 to communicate with someone by talking in person or on the phone or by exchanging messages, and learn or discuss what has been happening in their life:

  • She spends hours on the phone, catching up with old friends.

  • I must catch up with you some time.