catch up with

柯林斯词典

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. 他于昨日落入法网。
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. 让 (某人) 尝到恶果
Although he subsequently became a successful businessman, his criminal past caught up with him. 虽然他后来成了一位成功的商人，但他的犯罪前科却让他尝到了恶果。