catch a packet
verb- While here last night we caught a packet, and some shrapnel came into our house here. However, no casualties in cars or men.1956, George Rock, The History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955, page 436:
- From then onwards about every minute we caught a packet from somewhere: 'Crash! Rattle! Bump! Thump!' Eventually there was an even worse one than usual which knocked us all off our perches; […]2016, Peter Hart, Voices from the Front: An Oral History of the Great War: