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"You can catch me but you cannot throw me. What am I?"

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Answer: A Cold. 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.

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