- 1招牌台詞、口頭禪。一聽就想到那個人的那句話。
A catchphrase is a short, well-known line that sticks to one person. An or a politician says it so often, or so , that when you hear those words you see their face. It comes from catch + phrase: the phrase is meant to catch in the mind, like a hook, and stay there. It is usually brief and easy to repeat, not a long speech. A company slogan is close, but a catchphrase belongs to a person more than to a brand. Though actually some catchphrases start with one speaker and then everyone copies them, until the first person almost drops out of the story. People also stretch it to any line a sitcom character says every week. It is on purpose; that is the point.
組成From catch + phrase, from the idea that the phrase will catch in the mind.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
catchphrasenoun
- 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.
- For Tigger, he created a slight lisp and laugh, crediting his British wife with Tigger's "TTFN" catchprase - "ta-ta for now", itself coming from BBC radio comedy It's That Man Again.
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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.
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