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catchphrase

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catch phrase

noun
1.
a phrase that attracts or is meant to attract attention.
2.
a phrase, as a slogan, that comes to be widely and repeatedly used, often with little of the original meaning remaining.
Also, catch·phrase.


Origin:
1840–50; catch(word) + phrase
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Catchphrase is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Word Origin & History

catchphrase
c.1850, from catch (v.) + phrase. The notion is of words that will "catch" in the mind.
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