Are you missing a stage? Maybe something like "enshrinement?"

Because aren't phrases that originated as catchphrases embedded in standard English?

Of course there are, as they say, time-honored phrases that are obviously catchphrasogenic: to back the wrong horse; to bet the farm; to buy the farm; to cast one's lot; to cast aside; to cave in; to slide down a slippery slope; to open the door; to close the door; to appear on the horizon; to jump into the fire; to go to bed with; to take a faithful leap (elegant variation); to have been born earlier than yesterday; to compare apples and oranges; to rue the day; to go on and on; to be captain obvious.

There are a boatload of others.

But there are also less obvious phrases which must have originated as "catch" back when the "media" that hooked them was little more than hearth-side conversation. No?

On the other hand? Both metaphorical and ubiquitous. Nevertheless? Poetic yet essential.

And that is not to mention, as they say, phrases that translate directly from one language to another, suggesting that if they weren't co-opted from one language by the other (which is possible), they first caught on in some Indo-European version.

Don't leave me hanging: No me deje colgando.

Someone even once coined the phrase "to coin a phrase." And long before Obama tossed his mother in front of the bus, some Caesar probably threw his to the lions.

On the other hand? Both metaphorical and ubiquitous. Nevertheless? Poetic yet essential.

ahh, you red-headed young cyrano, here is your stage!!

You might have said at least a hundred things
By varying the tone. . .like this, suppose,. . .
Aggressive: 'Sir, if I had such a nose
I'd amputate it!' Friendly: 'When you sup
It must annoy you, dipping in your cup;
You need a drinking-bowl of special shape!'
Descriptive: ''Tis a rock!. . .a peak!. . .a cape!
--A cape, forsooth! 'Tis a peninsular!'
Curious: 'How serves that oblong capsular?
For scissor-sheath? Or pot to hold your ink?'
Gracious: 'You love the little birds, I think?
I see you've managed with a fond research
To find their tiny claws a roomy perch!'
Truculent: 'When you smoke your pipe. . .suppose
That the tobacco-smoke spouts from your nose--
Do not the neighbors, as the fumes rise higher,
Cry terror-struck: "The chimney is afire"?'
Considerate: 'Take care,. . .your head bowed low
By such a weight. . .lest head o'er heels you go!'
Tender: 'Pray get a small umbrella made,
Lest its bright color in the sun should fade!'
Pedantic: 'That beast Aristophanes
Names Hippocamelelephantoles
Must have possessed just such a solid lump
Of flesh and bone, beneath his forehead's bump!'
Cavalier: 'The last fashion, friend, that hook?
To hang your hat on? 'Tis a useful crook!'
Emphatic: 'No wind, O majestic nose,
Can give THEE cold!--save when the mistral blows!'
Dramatic: 'When it bleeds, what a Red Sea!'
Admiring: 'Sign for a perfumery!'
Lyric: 'Is this a conch?. . .a Triton you?'
Simple: 'When is the monument on view?'
Rustic: 'That thing a nose? Marry-come-up!
'Tis a dwarf pumpkin, or a prize turnip!'
Military: 'Point against cavalry!'
Practical: 'Put it in a lottery!
Assuredly 'twould be the biggest prize!'
Or. . .parodying Pyramus' sighs. . .
'Behold the nose that mars the harmony
Of its master's phiz! blushing its treachery!'

(PViejo, there's more, but please don't take it personal)

--Such, my dear sir, is what you might have said,
Had you of wit or letters the least jot:
But, O most lamentable man!--of wit
You never had an atom, and of letters
You have three letters only!--they spell Ass!
And--had you had the necessary wit,
To serve me all the pleasantries I quote
Before this noble audience. . .e'en so,
You would not have been let to utter one--
Nay, not the half or quarter of such jest!
I take them from myself all in good part,
But not from any other man that breathes!

Exactly. Throw all of Cyrano's candidates for catchphrasedom under the bus and you're left with this: "Your nose is . . . very big."

"your nose is very damned big" beer drinking emphatic

everything cyrano is lots of fun. thanks, p viejo.