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catch phrase en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of catchphrase
    • “I don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I informed Julie for the fiftieth time. The words always coming out during a subway rush or after a slight shove from an^([sic]) scurrying pedestrian. […] “I mean, damn, I just don’t know how you can put up with this shit,” I repeat in disbelief. It was my catch phrase for the entire trip. 2008, lb briggs, “In”, in It’s Alright: A Truckface Anthology, volume 2, Tacoma, Wash.: Mend My Dress Press, published 2013, →ISBN, issue 12, page 69:

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