Adjective : a catch-as-catch-can life, as an itinerant handyman. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : They lived catch-as-catch-can. From Dictionary.com.
Food was a catch-as-catch-can situation, and sleep was worse. From Wordnik.com. [Recovery]
In Sicily it's catch-as-catch-can for artists; no draw like ours at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
Living off the land was prohibited, except catch-as-catch-can in the forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
My current project, taken catch-as-catch-can, was one I was working on with Frogface. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
It was catch-as-catch-can in the darkness, and mostly the other fellow could and did. From Wordnik.com. ["Terrors Unseen" by Harl Vincent, part 5] Reference
What had been preparations made catch-as-catch-can became orderly and almost organized. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
In a catch-as-catch-can wrestle Pete Dickerson might have been able to overturn Hiram Strong. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
Are you going to have a waltz, or is it going to be a two-step, or a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match?. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Easy to play, and if you wound up with more than four kids you had to stack the pegs catch-as-catch-can. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Commercial Break: Life – The Bleat.] Reference
They provide a guidepost to the catch-as-catch-can style of deal making that is now permeating the market. From Wordnik.com. [Lacking Leverage, Firms Embrace EBOs] Reference
Put at least I'm getting paid, which is more than I've had other than catch-as-catch-can for the last two years. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 135] Reference
John Marston, as well, has too little delicacy or reserve; he also wrote catch-as-catch-can non-dramatic satires. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
We've had frustratingly fewer visits from the Muse, as it's been catch-as-catch-can on the writing time around here. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
If compost is made catch-as-catch-can by using materials as they come available, then results will be highly erratic. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Researching the field consists of catch-as-catch-can stuff, wisdom garnered from reading the multiplicity of writing blogs and books. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Rambo] Reference
They throw blame around willy-nilly, playing catch-as-catch-can with the facts in a mad attempt to bring some sense back to their world. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Rosenblatt: Conservative Protesters Show Their Liberal Side on the Streets of D.C.] Reference
Tnmsport and communications routes featured more prominently in Rolling Thunders than anything else, but it was often catch-as-catch-can. From Wordnik.com. [On Yankee Station]
"We always rassled catch-as-catch-can, and you know it," declared. From Wordnik.com. [John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life] Reference
"Is there to be any catch-as-catch-can business, Boyle?" demanded Gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
Today, he stands by his view that search results are too catch-as-catch-can. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Technology] Reference
Lucinda gave him a look in which curiosity and aggravation fought catch-as-catch-can. From Wordnik.com. [The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary] Reference
The supply of grape juice seems almost unlimited, yet coal is to be had catch-as-catch-can. From Wordnik.com. [Mince Pie] Reference
Claire's relations, and figure out whether you shake hands catch-as-catch-can or Corinthian. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
Except in the country the old-time, catch-as-catch-can general practitioner appears to be dying out. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking of Operations] Reference
Is voice culture a sort of catch-as-catch-can with the probabilities a hundred to one against success?. From Wordnik.com. [The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing] Reference
It's been catch-as-catch-can and most folks just sit and stew about it once they find the infringement. From Wordnik.com. [LA Brain Terrain] Reference
And because I listen to NPR mostly in the car, getting the news this way is a catch-as-catch-can process. From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
"Side holt, square holt, or catch-as-catch-can?" asked Bishop, casting one anxious look towards the house. From Wordnik.com. [John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life] Reference
He never had been what you'd call a champion catch-as-catch-can talker, but now he was silenter than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Upstairs and Other Stories] Reference
Along with the catch-as-catch-can nature of the street market, junkies are plagued by ever accelerating tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Comelec delays alarm poll watchdog groups elections have become a catch-as-catch-can affair, alarming poll watchdog groups. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Philippines Arroyo to start campaign for house seat] Reference
The Spaghetti Ballet, Feld's jokey, catch-as-catch-can parody of a spaghetti western, set to movie music by Ennio Morricone. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
The play of bears, young or middle-aged, consists in boxing, catch-as-catch-can wrestling, and chasing each other to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Th 'sojer was fr'm th' County Kerry an 'had a thrip an' Doherty is th 'champeen catch-as-catch-can rassler iv Camp Twinty-eight. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Dooley Says] Reference
Ree stipulated but one thing, as he threw off his coat and made ready, this was that the wrestling should be "catch-as-catch-can.". From Wordnik.com. [Far Past the Frontier] Reference
Gin'ral Miles is th 'on'y in-an'-out, up an' down, catch-as-catch-can, white, red or black, with or without, journylist we have left. From Wordnik.com. [Observations By Mr. Dooley] Reference
From the H.A.C., in the general catch-as-catch-can of those early weeks of the war, I found myself on one and the same day pushed into. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Have you and your partner sat down to discuss who manages the Netflix account, or does this just happen in a catch-as-catch-can manner?. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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