latch onto
Upper Intermediate (B2) informal
To grab hold of something — a person, an idea, or a chance — and hold on tight.
"The marketing team latched onto the new trend immediately and built a whole campaign around it."
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People tend to latch onto things,
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people who are naturally skeptical latch onto.
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Or they have to latch onto somebody else.
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actually latch onto other stuff in the freezer.
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of conversational hooks that someone can latch onto,