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catch phrase
noun
- a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
- a phrase, as a slogan, that comes to be widely and repeatedly used, often with little of the original meaning remaining.
catch phrase
noun
- a well-known frequently used phrase, esp one associated with a particular group, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of catch phrase1
Example Sentences
The catch phrase, which Reagan borrowed from a Russian proverb, was “trust but verify.”
For those wondering, this vanishing middle ground is where the book gets its catch-phrase title.
I wish Paul had given education reform a rationale instead of the catch phrase 'civil rights'.
Gunn lovingly confronted Rice about the joke, and a new Project Runway catch phrase was born: what happened to Andrae?
I guess the media and the politicians need a quick catch phrase to go by.
I recognized the latter words as the catch phrase of a moral story in an ancient reader used in my boyhood school days.
The same immunity was accorded to the insertion (inspired by Clowes, as usual) of a popular catch phrase in the last few lines.
Let us hear no more that deceptive catch phrase, "If you want peace prepare for war."
A third (and more intelligible) suggestion is that the line is simply a catch phrase, without any meaning.
That is a nice catch phrase to use in a speech or article but operating within the law has not interfered with our work.
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