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catchphrase
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A catchphrase (or catch phrase ) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media (such as literature and publishing, motion ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ His catchphrases like'What a peach of a shot' and 'That's a dream of a pass' are now part of tennis language. ▪ The public soon learned to associate the catchphrase 'Ooh, you are awful' with the inimitable Dick Emery. ...
Usage examples of catchphrase.
They just keep moving fast and shouting out catchphrases to win the battle of the narrative.
The vast bank of brochures against one wall seemed more appropriate for a tourist resort than a government office, and the brochures themselves were likewise colorful and sunny, promising services in perky catchphrases that were meant to make the alien seem reasonable.
Sending their minds back eighteen billion years, they reach for catchphrases that were getting old eighteen months ago.
By contrast Bateman would blast in, dressed in a ball gown worn over lycra cycling shorts, usually shouting the catchphrase from some television commercial, and all the lads, Marty Spen, Paul Crouch, Miles Godmanchester, Ronny Raul, would be pleased as punch to see him.
Rochet kept tabs on an evolving list of headers, taglines, and catchphrases that were playing and propagating well.
And on he would go, 10p, 20p, 50puntil he was tripped up by some dead comic's catchphrase or rock star's cock size, and by then like Albert, Roger, and Bob.
I had my own catchphrase for solving many modern-day mysteries -- cherchez l' argent.
The hanging posters formed walls of a kind, and aisles, as did hundreds of stacked boxes packed full of Channing Manheim memorabilia that included T-shirts bearing his likeness and/or catchphrases from his films, wristwatches on which time ticked across his famous face, coffee mugs bearing his mug, hats, caps, jackets, drinking glasses, action figures, dolls, hundreds of different toys, lingerie, lockets, lunchboxes, and more merchandise than Fric could remember or imagine.
Quentin soon became the witty one in his circle, the one who didn't say much but always had the deft put-down, the bon mot, the new catchphrase.
In these processions there were many banners bearing catchphrases and mottoes expressing the sentiment of the people on the candidates and the issues.
But Iraq was doing a lot of 'saberrattling'-that was the catchphrase everybody seemed to be using at the time-and the Bureau thought we'd better beef up our work in Israel and spend more time with the guys from Shin Bet and Mossad.