catch phrase
noun
a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
catchphrase
-
a variation of
catch phrase.
Example Sentences
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To use Ms. Frizzle’s catchphrase: Bus, do your stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
When AFP visited last month, street vendors were catering to data centre workers on their lunchbreak near a roadside banner calling for "promoting high-quality development", a government tech policy catchphrase.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
At Wadadli, owner Edwin Brods knew customers were Tastebuds fans when they came into his Bedford Stuyvesant Antiguan restaurant quoting his personal catchphrase: “’nuff love.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda, meanwhile, invoked the viral protest catchphrase "waste-guna-huiya" - a deliberately nonsensical meme popularised during the demonstrations - to poke fun at the government.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"McCarthyism" became a catchphrase for the hunt for communist subversives, a frenzy that would engulf the United States for the rest of the 1950s.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
