abstraction, catch phrase, commonplace expression, familiar tune, glittering generality, lieu commun, old story, prose, squareness, tag, truism
Definitionn. a trite or obvious remark
Last update: February 18, 2017
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In essays we were told to avoid the use of cliches. [noun]
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I can only offer the cliche retort: I do n't know why I did it - I just did it. [noun]
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I kept seeing several very cliche 'd endings coming up, only for them to diverge away from the more obvious plot lines. [noun]
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They were molded in an old system, and could not change their cliche. [Please select]
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Here was the situation as old as the return of the Prodigal or the desertion of the trusting village maiden, or any other cliche in the melodrama of real life. [Please select]
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But surely you would not be so unoriginal, so cliche, as to say the same thing to me that you said to Mr. [Please select]
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