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A favorite saying
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catchword
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a favorite saying of a sect or political group [syn: motto , slogan , shibboleth ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Catchword is a daytime word game show first shown on BBC1 Scotland from 17 May 1985 until 2 April 1986, hosted by Gyles Brandreth , and then network on its sister channel BBC2 from 5 January 1988 until 23 May 1995, hosted by Paul Coia
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page. 2 A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view. 3 Among theatrical performers, ...
Usage examples of catchword.
They repeated and celebrated the Jeffersonian catchwords with the utmost conviction.
And I saw the demagogues taking advantage of our good instincts, of the craving for luxury, of the group-sense, to start up fatal currents through the influence of hollow catchwords and ridiculous over-estimation of self.
Early in the XVIIIth dynasty scribes began to write the titles of the Chapters, the rubrics, and the catchwords in red ink and the text in black, and it became customary to decorate the vignettes with colours, and to increase their size and number.
If there is anyone who has not played The Game, it may be explained that two teams are chosen, and that each team gets its chance to present the other team with a number of pieces of paper, upon which proverbs, quotations, catchwords and the like are written.
They felt the futility of the whole question, and were thankful to one who seemed to clench the matter with a cant catchword, especially with a catchword in a foreign language.
Henry Mackie says is a famous revolutionary catchword and which outlines, in clear, simple language, Henry Mackie's program for the reification of the human condition from the ground up.
Several times on Sunday afternoon Qwilleran had suggested playing the word game, hoping for additional revelations, but the catchwords that Koko turned up were insignificant: oppositional and optimism, cynegetic and cypripedium.
Is the scientific element being reduced to a few gimmicks and catchwords in a literature which is really about something else, such as depth psychology, social protest or mysticism, when it isn't mere tale telling with no intellectual content?
And that we have been betrayed into it by statesmen and orators mouthing catchwords and prejudices,” said Melly rapidly.