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catchphrase
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See also: catch-phrase and catch phrase
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From catch + phrase, from the notion that the phrase will catch in the mind of the user.
Pronunciation
Noun
catchphrase (plural catchphrases)
- A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.
- 2003 [1985], Eric Partridge, “Introduction to the First Editon”, in Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
- Frequently, catch phrases are not, in the grammarians' sense, phrases at all, but sentences. Catch phrases, like the closely linked proverbial sayings, are self-contained, as, obviously, clichés are too. Catch phrases are usually more pointed and ‘human’ than clichés, although the former sometimes arises from, and often they generate, the latter. Occasionally, catch phrases stem from too famous quotations.
- A signature phrase of a particular person or group.
- 2018, Bill C. Malone, Tracey E. W. Laird, Country Music USA, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 547:
- Instead, bro country songs string together a formulaic subset of tropes about beer sipping, truck driving, sunglasses wearing, unpaved roads, and tanned girls in shorts, typically building to a predictable catchphrase singsong chorus.
Synonyms
Translations
a repeated expression
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Trivia
- This is one of the few common words in English with six consonant letters in a row. Others include watchstrap, latchstring and sightscreen.
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