catch up with

柯林斯詞典

1. PHRASAL VERB When people catch up with someone who has done something wrong, they succeed in finding them in order to arrest or punish them. 逮捕
The law caught up with him yesterday. 他于昨日落入法網(wǎng)。
2. PHRASAL VERB If something catches up with you, you are forced to deal with something unpleasant that happened or that you did in the past, which you have been able to avoid until now. 讓 (某人) 嘗到惡果
Although he subsequently became a successful businessman, his criminal past caught up with him. 雖然他后來成了一位成功的商人，但他的犯罪前科卻讓他嘗到了惡果。