catch it

1. 1.

   receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded

   “I really caught it the other day!”

Questions about catch it

What does catch it mean?

catch it means "receive punishment; be scolded or reprimanded".

Is catch it a common word?

catch it is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.