catchphrase

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A repeated expression, often originating in popular culture.
    — 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.
  2. A signature phrase of a particular person or group.
    — 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.

词形变化

catchphrases plural catch phrase alternative catch-phrase alternative

词汇关系

近义词
signature phrase catchword

词源

From catch + phrase, from the notion that the phrase will catch in the mind of the user.
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