EasyClassic
"You can catch me but you cannot throw me. What am I?"
Answer
A Cold
Explanation
You catch a cold — it is standard English. But you cannot throw a cold to someone else in the same direct sense. The riddle plays on the sporting meaning of catch and throw to disguise a mundane illness.
This is an easy riddle in the Classic category — Time-honoured riddles passed down through generations.
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