What's the difference between catchphrase and phrase?

Catchphrase


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.
  • (2) It's a combination of very fast comeback, catchphrases and the occasional very original insight, which he throws in to keep you off balance".
  • (3) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
  • (4) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
  • (5) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
  • (6) Rennie's "sunshine strategy" is now a conference catchphrase, apparently to counter the repeated typecasting of the pro-UK campaign as "Project Fear" by independence campaigners after a leaked internal memo from Better Together used the phrase last year.
  • (7) It is a line from "The Ladies Who Lunch", from Company , which "became a sort of catchphrase among show queens".
  • (8) 8.21pm GMT Sue: I can’t help but feel that this should have been Christopher Eccleston is this scene… 8.20pm GMT “Reversing the polarity” is the Doctor’s most famous and least-used catchphrase.
  • (9) The OED lists this as the first recorded instance of the American dream, although it's not yet the catchphrase as we know it.
  • (10) It was also a catchphrase that came to define Positive Black Soul, the hip-hop group that Awadi started with Amadou "Doug E Tee" Barry in the late 1980s.
  • (11) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
  • (12) It's the first battle cry in the pair's hair-raising physical and mental skirmish and has become something approaching a catchphrase.
  • (13) Moments later I'm given a seat in the audience for Fallon's show, where his guests, including Witherspoon, Usher (inexplicably wearing a Davy Crockett-style hat) and the 18-year-old Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin are taking part in a game of Catchphrase.
  • (14) So too were ideological debates that had supposedly long been settled; that catchphrase of our age, “there is no alternative”, was confronted by myriad tiny, irrepressible political grenades that detonated deep inside countless imaginations.
  • (15) As it turned out, Stavros – a Greek kebab shop-owner, with the catchphrase "Hello everybody peeps!"
  • (16) It is the location for what local community station Zack FM 105.3, with its deliriously cavalier catchphrase "WE PLAY EVERYTHING", has billed as a Malibu beach party.
  • (17) Engineered serendipity Google is a great company for a catchphrase.
  • (18) Bezos, a Star Trek fan, also considers calling the company MakeItSo.com, after Captain Picard's catchphrase in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and holds a party for the show's final episode in May 1994.
  • (19) The hopefuls clutch expensive portraits they got for Christmas or birthdays, internalising talent show catchphrases about this being a "once in a lifetime opportunity".
  • (20) The situation is much more subtle, just as it is much more subtle than the unhelpful catchphrase of the 'right to be forgotten'.

Phrase


Definition:

  • (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
  • (n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
  • (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
  • (n.) A short clause or portion of a period.
  • (v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
  • (v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases.
  • (v. i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
  • (2) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (3) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (4) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (5) On Thursday, Dutton had scaled his language back, instead using a phrase to describe Labor’s policy borrowed from former prime minister, Tony Abbott.
  • (6) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
  • (7) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
  • (8) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
  • (9) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (10) (now the phrase "reverse engineer" has me thinking).
  • (11) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (12) To complement these results a perception test was carried out in which 29 native speakers identified a randomised sequence of 220 stimuli from tape as one of the phrases 'Diese Gruppe kann ich nicht leid(e)n (leit(e)n)'.
  • (13) Peskov has refused to deny the phrase, saying only that Ponomaryov's publicising of a private conversation was "not manly".
  • (14) One of my technologists has a phrase: ‘internet of other people’s things,’” Tien said.
  • (15) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
  • (16) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
  • (17) Later that year, speaking at Sinn Féin's annual conference, I used the phrase "the Armalite and the ballot box" to sum up the new duel strategy of engaging in armed struggle and simultaneously contesting elections.
  • (18) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
  • (19) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
  • (20) The phrase "Defender of the Faith," which is usually included in the King's titles, appears neither in the instrument of abdication nor in the bill.