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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Unfamiliarity with the expression ‘cash cow’ – indicating a steady, reliable source of income or profit – could result in the substitution ‘catch cow’ which can be interpreted as a valuable yet easily caught commodity, a lucky bovine bonus.
The airline said it cannot sustain it loses on the route which previously was a catch cow for the Southern African carrier.
... more EVs sold the government will hit them as well, motorists are a catch cow when it comes to raising taxes.
These are too many universities of treated ed schools and teacher education as a catch cow.
... corruption is very common and since the NNPC and the Oil industry is a catch cow for others outside the Niger Delta who are controlling …
But when you make it subjective, saying the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is a catch-cow, let’s go there, it won’t work.
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I have several exx. of “catch in on” meaning something like “(take the opportunity to) cash in on, profit from.” In several of these contexts “catch” alone would work just fine.
I was able to catch in on the last part of the prayer-meeting [… followed by speaker’s self-aware comment: of course there’s no money given out at prayer meetings]
It is important that local businesses that depend upon foot-traffic catch in on Foursquare since it is the future of location based [software]
Definutely try to catch in on a big screen! It looked and sounded beautiful. The cast here is fantastic!
(Probably relevant in some degree.)
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2023-08-23 03:27:48)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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