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What is a "catch phrase"?
Is "catch phrase" something like what in Argentina we call "chamuyo", the definition of this one is "persuasive speaking or writing with intent, but deceptively or without solid arguments. Compliments to say to another person with the intent to seduce" Example: Excuse me, do you know the street "Fell in love when I saw you"? If not which word do you have to this?
Sep 12, 2014 9:14 PM
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No, a 'catch phrase' is a phrase that a television personality uses regularly that then becomes associated with that particular personality. E.g. If a TV talk-show host introduced every single one of his interviews by saying "And lets see whose mind we can read this evening..." that would be his 'catch phrase', i.e. the phrase that defines him in the public arena.
The other type of phrase (which you use to flirt with strangers or to try to hook up with someone romantically is called 'a chat up line'.
September 12, 2014
Why I feel like this one " heels over head in love" crazy in love or to love at first sign as a blind love.
To catch your hearts, minds, attention something you grip as your own never leaving it away.
Fall in love or just a love for friendship or family. Perhaps falling in love is in an crazy about rather than as seducing as teaching style or making some to love you in return as your plan sounds very conscious no crazy stuffs in your own minds, more likely as mutual attractions.
September 14, 2014
I don't think catch-phraes are always associated with a single performer. It just means any phrase that becomes popular simply because people like to say it. It may not have any meaning, or people may use it but without thinking much about its meaning.
Wikipedia's article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase , confirms this. "A catchphrase (or catch-phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through a variety of mass media (such as literature and publishing, motion pictures, television and radio), as well as word of mouth."
Unlike idioms, and like slang, catchphrases have a short lifetime and don't become a permanent part of the language. Catchphrases associated with particular performers rarely last longer than the career of the performer.
A "catch-phrase" can also be a habitual phrase used by one individual and by nobody else--a personal quirk.
"Catchphrase" is very close to "hackneyed expression."
Googling on Project Gutenberg turns up these examples--some are just hackneyed expression and stale saying, one personal quirk, and one catch-phrase from a popular performance.
"All of us who have had occasion to discuss this subject are familiar with the catch-phrases with which the whole matter is so often dismissed.'You cannot change human nature,'"
"Then I will be quite plain--why do you shut yourself up as if, to use a catch phrase, you were a woman with a past?"
"This was a catch phrase of his: 'the idea is.'"
"the repetition of the once popular catch-phrase about 'What never?' and 'Hardly ever,'"
September 13, 2014
No, a catch phrase is a word or phrase or sentence that an entertainer becomes famous for saying very often. So, for example, the actor Matthew McConaughey often begins a speech with the words, "All right, all right, all right!" Years ago, the American comic Jimmy Walker was famous for saying, 'Dy-no-MITE!" And the comedian Steve Martin, when he did stand-up comedy, often said, "Well, ex-CUSE ME!'
September 12, 2014
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