Words: 'high' and 'catch'

[Haihao]

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Could you please tell me if the following passage is like what I am thinking of:

[Mister Micawber]

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'High' means 'almost rotten', I would say. Dict.com says "(of meat, esp. game) tending toward a desirable or undesirable amount of decomposition; slightly tainted: He likes his venison high."

'Catch' means 'capture'. This is the famous first line of an old and probably apocryphal recipe for jugged hare:

"According to legend, “Mrs Beeton’s Cookery Book” (published in 1861) began its recipe for jugged hare with the words, “first catch your hare.” Sound advice, you might think. But a legend is all it is. The words are not found in Mrs Beeton. A second theory is that it goes to back Hannah Glasse, whose “Art of Cookery” was published in 1747. But the words are not found in her book either, and it appears the phrase was already familiar back in the 14th century. Today “first catch your hare” is used to mean “don’t tackle a task until you have what you need” – so it remains part of the living language. But the legends about its origins turn out to be false, and it seems likely that the true source of the expression is lost in the mists of time."
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[Haihao]

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