Definition
To contract a serious illness, especially a nasty cold or other respiratory ailment and especially as a result of exposure to wet or chilly weather.
In Context
- ""You'll get drenched to the skin—You'll catch your death!" said Peechy Prauw, affectionately."
- ""My eye as like! you don't think I'm such a fool as to catch my death of cold, and let the horses catch their death too.""
- ""You shall trudge away, and do your errands in the rain, and if you catch your death and ruin your bonnet, it's no more than you deserve.""
- "Now Linda's catching her death outside in nothing but her nightie."
- "Carla left him weeping in the rain, soaked to the skin, in his trademark tight white shirt. He may yet catch his death."