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catch phrase

NOUN
  1. a phrase that has become a catchword

How To Use catch phrase In A Sentence

  • For keys with sharps, look at the last sharp in the series of sharps, and say the catch phrase ‘little step up, big step down.’
  • They didn't flippantly joke, they crafted campaigns of division and anger, using catch phrases and terrifying tag lines to batter America into submission. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
  • Mr. Frye perfected his impression by matching Nixon's vocal tones and modulations, by adopting a few of the president's catch phrases, such as "Let me make this perfectly clear," and by creating a few of his own, including "I am the president, and make no mistake about that. David Frye, mimic who used Nixon as object of satire, dies at 76
  • The candidates employ top public relations and advertising men , who invent clever catch phrase.
  • It is all very well to have these slogans and catch phrases, but if they do not produce or mean anything, then why have them?
  • I actually got kind of pissy when Jay told it to me, thinking he was just passing along the latest catch phrase. Ana-ng Diary Entry
  • The Beamer family later publicized the passengers' courageous behavior, and Beamer's words soon became a catch phrase symbolizing the nation's resolve.
  • People who want to make this about Joe Wilson have their official Faux News blinders on (you can tell when they repeat catch phrases like “criminilization of politics” – that’s what you call a shibboleth). Think Progress » White House Responds To Criticism of Bush’s Leak With More Leaks
  • This is sometimes described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike.
  • They did every convention, from pratfalls to bad catch phrases to a live audience that laughed uproariously at the stupidest jokes - and were then accentuated by a laugh track.
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