catch phrase

A form of catchphrase — A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.

Meanings

nouncatch phrase (plural catch phrases)

plural catch phrases

  1. alternativeAlternative form of catchphrase
    1 more example

    “I don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I informed Julie for the fiftieth time. The words always coming out during a subway rush or after a slight shove from an^([sic]) scurrying pedestrian. […] “I mean, damn, I just don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I repeat in disbelief. It was my catch phrase for the entire trip.

    2008, lb briggs, “In”, in It’s Alright: A Truckface Anthology, volume 2, Tacoma, Wash.: Mend My Dress Press, published 2013, →ISBN, issue 12, page 69

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna phrase that has become a catchword

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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