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catch on

• (of a practice or fashion) become popular.
• "the idea of linking pay to performance has caught on"
Similar: become popular, take off, become fashionable, come into fashion/vogue, boom, flourish, thrive, become trendy, become all the rage,
• understand what is meant or how to do something.
• "I caught on to what it was the guy was saying"
Similar: understand, comprehend, learn, realize, find out, see the light, see daylight, work out what's going on, get the point, cotton on, tumble, latch on, get the picture, get the message, get the drift, get wise, understand/see what's what, twig,


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