catch sight of

Language: en

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)toseefor a brief period; to get aglimpseof2012April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, inBBC Sport‎[1]:Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barelycaught sight ofgoal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.

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