catch phrase

Noun

Meaning

a phrase that has become a catchword

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

catch-phrase

Synonyms

catchphrase maxim axiom shibboleth saying observation tag slogan quotation motto banner cry annotation mantra adage
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Antonyms

work fact action move movement performance
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Hypernyms

shibboleth phrase slogan motto catchword

Examples

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' Harvey Ball

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers. Tom Glazer

There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records. Afrika Bambaataa

When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first came back my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Rodney Dangerfield

The only sort of descriptive adjective or catch phrase for my music would be 'eclectic.' Moby

Cain's 999 plan is a catch-phrase, a remnant from his Godfather Pizza days, it is a hollow slogan, make-believe. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

catch oneself on catch out catch over catch phrases catch pit catch plate