Of course, we didn't run it long enough to cause a real catastrophe.

"And a cat jumping up on your lap unexpectedly can be a real, uh, catastrophe."

"My worst fear was a real catastrophe," he said.

"You want to insure yourself against a real catastrophe."

What if the fund faced a real catastrophe - huge payments to a class of workers such as those injured by asbestos, for example?

"Whose shoulders do you think I'm standing on" That was about the only real catastrophe to befall us.

Yet her lively imagination failed altogether to anticipate the real catastrophe.

The real catastrophe in France is that there is no proper teaching of art.

The potential for real catastrophe is being greatly exaggerated.

Surely you can see that that's precisely what would have led to a real catastrophe.