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Sisse Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

Vocabulary

In a Foreword to "Night Shift" Stephen King writes: "Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of occupation". What does "catch-as-catch-can" mean?
Hope somebody can help me.
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Sisse
  

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I don't use the expression myself, but it means that "it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't". Probably some fishing phrase, meaning that at certain places the fishing isn't too good, but you do with what you have.

— Philip

  • I don't use the expression myself, but it means that "it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't".
  • Probably some fishing phrase, meaning that at certain places the fishing isn't too good, but you do with what you have.
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I don't use the expression myself, but it means that "it works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't". Probably some fishing phrase, meaning that at certain places the fishing isn't too good, but you do with what you have.
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