Catchphrases

A catchphrase (alternatively spelled 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 word of mouth and a variety of mass media (such as films, internet, literature and publishing, television, and radio). Some become the de facto or literal "trademark" or "signature" of the person or character with whom they originated, and can be instrumental in the typecasting of a particular actor. Catchphrases are often humorous, can be (or become) the punch line of a joke, or a callba

dilemma between painful truth and blissful ignorance

Latin translation of a Greek aphorism

ageist catchphrase and Internet meme

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phraseme

"all flows", aphorism of Plato or Heraclites

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Internet meme from the video game Portal

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Russian catchphrase

1940 film by Edward F. Cline

American English idiom

A snowclone is a clichéd phrase in which one or more words can be substituted to express a similar idea in a different context, often to humorous or sarcastic effect. For example, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's widely publicized phrase "the mother of all battles" in 1991 spawned such variations as "the mother of all traffic jams". The term snowclone was coined in 2004, derived from journalistic clichés that referred to the number of Inuit words for snow.

quotation from Star Trek

catchphrase concerning a cliffhanger in the soap opera 'Dallas'

1969 single by Steam

Internet meme

Catchphrase involving political corruption

slogan used in North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye