Sentence examples for it would catch on from inspiring English sources

"We thought it would catch on sooner!

"Once we started seeing edits of the video, then we kind of thought it would catch on," Canning said.

"I think we all thought the show would be good, but I didn't ever assume it would catch on in a mass audience sort of way," he said.

"I was naive enough to think that if you had good food and good wait staff and kept it clean it would catch on," he said.

The difference maker here could be that everyone uses Facebook and everyone is familiar with it –and if you transferred that familiar Facebook look and feel to work, employees would be comfortable using it and it would catch on in a big way.

Boeing never really thought it would catch on for passengers; the company imagined its real potential would be as a big freight aircraft for the burgeoning air-cargo business.

Still, Mr. Maloney said he was confident that WiMax would catch on, because it could offer competition to cable and telephone companies selling high-speed Internet access.

Every so often, one of his paramours would catch on and alert the others.

Tight fielding and a strict policy of not conceding extras (you'd think it'd catch on elsewhere that one, wouldn't you?) help.

I had no idea he would catch on like wild fire.

Back then, certain people (OK, me) weren't sure this internet thing would "catch on".