Catchphrase

Quick meaning: Catchphrase is a noun meaning A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.

Meaning

A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.

More Meanings

1. A signature phrase of a particular person or group.

Example Sentences

The former head of BBC comedy claims catchphrases are out of fashion. But as Corporal Jones might say, ‘Don’t panic!’

For Tigger, he created a slight lisp and laugh, crediting his British wife with Tigger's "TTFN" catchprase - "ta-ta for now", itself coming from BBC radio comedy It's That Man Again.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• catchphrases
• catch phrase
• catch-phrase

Synonyms for catchphrase

Depending on context, synonyms include catchword.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include watchword, theme, byword, buzzword, phrase, slogan.

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