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- noun Alternative spelling of
catchphrase .
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Examples
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The "repeal and replace" catch-phrase did earn a mention in the House campaign manifesto, details to come, but it is clearly a subsidiary theme.
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Joel Kotkin's catch-phrase for summarizing America's older cities is Euro-America
Euro-America, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Now that I look at it, I should have bolded the whole catch-phrase:
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But too often, in the educational community, those words are used as a cliche, a catch-phrase or salutation that is repeated so often as to practically lose all meaning.
Ed Schmidt: Through Their Eyes Ed Schmidt 2011
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It works for them as a catch-phrase, but becomes conveniently forgotten when it comes top stuff like legislating lifestyle or invading foreign lands.
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The catch-phrase – "I didn't get where I am today by eating meat" – sets the tone for this cheerful vegetarian Indian cafe run by ebullient Bill Meswania and family.
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The sign reads: "So It Goes," a Vonnegut catch-phrase.
And So It Went Tom Shippey 2011
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If there's a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk--economists' old catch-phrase meaning an opportunity for big gain at small cost--why not pick it up?
Michael Clemens: Trillion-Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk: Why Don't More Economists Study Emigration? Michael Clemens 2011
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Vegas has been a touchstone for a while of squalid stupid behavior, and the “what happens in Vegas” catch-phrase/marketing gimmick is definitely one of those things that has national saturation.
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But too often, in the educational community, those words are used as a cliche, a catch-phrase or salutation that is repeated so often as to practically lose all meaning.
Ed Schmidt: Through Their Eyes Ed Schmidt 2011
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