catch phrase
Repeated memorable line
A catch phrase is a word or expression that gains currency through repeated use, often associated with a particular person, character, or cultural moment.
Television personalities develop signature catch phrases; advertising slogans become catch phrases when they enter everyday speech.
That became his catch phrase.
Also spelled catchphrase.
- sloganMemorable promotional phrase
- soundbiteBrief broadcast excerpt
- sound biteBrief broadcast quotation
- jingleBrief advertising melody
- repeatDo or say again
ad slogan · tagline · watchword · pun · attention-grabbing · one-liner · punch line · motto · catchy · buzzword · hook line · shibboleth · cliche · rallying cry · punchy · running gag · running joke · pithy
- humorjoke, jokes, joking, comedy, comic
- action clichesexplosion, car chase, one-liner, slow motion, shootout
- reality TVSurvivor, contestant, The Bachelor, elimination, The Bachelorette
- Shoujo AnimeSailor Moon, magical girl, ribbons, heart motifs, hearts
- partner gamestable tennis doubles, pairs skating, ice dancing, tandem cycling, bridge
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
brevity and memorability
catch phrasedissertation
Extended academic treatise
treatise · oration · filibuster · sermon · lecture
distinctiveness and association
catch phraseboilerplate language