catch out
Upper Intermediate (B2) informal
To find someone doing something they shouldn't, or to prove that someone is lying or wrong.
"The journalist caught the politician out by quoting his contradictory statements from two years ago."
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Ball just makes the catch out Winton there,
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You can't catch out your mind's eye.
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And now there is segregation, guys can catch out,
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Brawlhalla · 74:14
To go for another to catch out these aerial landings.