To become suddenly emotional because of a recent event that is usuallytrivial. It can be something exciting or stressful. Mainly a Southern slang-term.
1. They catch the vapors and have to be put to bed every time the temperature reaches 80 degrees.
(1) To getcaught up and interested in what someone else has or what they do and, want to be involved in it.
(2) To dislike someone for a certain period of time and then all of a sudden like them for materialistic reasons once, you've found out about thier status or what they have.
(1) Shannon's catching the vapors over that guy who drives the Lexus.
(2) Ron turned her down in high school, now that he sees her, he caught the vapors because she's with another person.
It means, to swoon or faint. From when ladies wore corsets and would faint all the time, it was said they "caught the vapors", maybe from the night air.
"Catch, or Caught the vapors."
Bring the fainting couchAlfred, Bessie "Caught the Vapors" again! If he proposes, I will "catch the vapors", tout suit.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.