latch onto

Meanings:

1.
USUKglobalneutralliteral
- To fasten onto or grip something physically by catching, hooking, or holding it.
- To secure oneself to a support to avoid falling or drifting away.
2.
USUKglobalinformalcolloquial
- To attach oneself to another person, group, or idea, often seeking support, stability, or opportunity; to become dependent on or closely associated with someone or something.
- To adopt or fixate on an idea, belief, or explanation and treat it as a basis for further action.
3.
USUKglobalinformaljournalistic
- To discover, identify, or become aware of something (such as information, a lead, or a person of interest), especially in a way that enables further exploitation or use.
- To seize upon a topic or story and pursue it actively (often used of media or public attention).

Examples:

EN: How was it you was able to latch onto that mouse?
ES: ¿Cómo te apañaste para cazar a ese bombón?
EN: Well, git 'n' go, where'd you latch onto that 'un?
ES: Demonios, ¿dónde has topado con ésa?
EN: How did you latch onto this?
ES: ¿Cómo te has metido en esto?
EN: Once in a blue moon I latch onto a guy with class and you mess it up.
ES: ¡La única ocasión en que ligo un tipo con clase y tú lo arruinas!
EN: I drifted till I had to latch onto something or go down the drain.
ES: Entonces decidí que o me aferraba a algo o estaba perdida.
EN: With any luck, we'll latch onto the metal buckles of that straitjacket.
ES: Con suerte, arrancaremos las hebillas de metal de esa camisa de fuerza.
EN: If we could just latch onto one of those nine tails, we'd be on our way to solving the puzzle.
ES: Si tan solo pudiéramos agarrarnos a una de esas nueve colas... resolveríamos este rompecabezas.
EN: They latch onto a springer, you know, a rent payer, and they don't come back.
ES: Pillan a alguien que les pague el alquiler y ya no vuelven más.
EN: What you wanna latch onto me for?
ES: ¿Qué quieres de mí? .
EN: You must have suspected something about me from the beginning, or did you just latch onto me like that, randomly, without knowing where it would lead?
ES: Debió sospechar algo de mí desde el principio, ¿o simplemente se pegó a mí por casualidad sin saber adónde le llevaría?
EN: Instead of always having to latch onto someone else's.
ES: En vez de que siempre tenga que engancharse en la de otra persona.
EN: I'll go and tell your wife how you latch onto your neighbors for a drink.
ES: Voy a decirle a tu esposa cómo te aferras a los vecinos para tomarte una copa.
EN: Donatello has found someone to latch onto.
ES: Donatello encontró a alguien con quien hablar.
EN: I mean, she's looking for something more stable, something permanent to latch onto.
ES: Busca algo más estable, más permanente de qué aferrarse.
EN: Then Jeffrey becomes a big star, and the media latch onto him because he's picketing his own father, a famous Nobel Prize-winning virologist.
ES: Jeffrey se convierte en una estrella, los medios se interesan por él porque protesta contra su propio padre, famoso virólogo ganador de un Nobel.

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