cliche


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Synonyms for cliche

platitude

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Synonyms for cliche

a trite expression or idea

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Synonyms for cliche

a trite or obvious remark

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clichefinder.net ), an online application that can help you hunt and catch cliches in your textand "bring them to justice".
So, here's another cliche for you but one that better serves the needs of children as it gives them a much more useful life lesson: Hard work is its own reward.
At the same time, however, he is sure he is fighting the cliche of the thieving Roma with his film.
A poet who has already articulated so much of the experience of his people and country in oblique terms has no need to prove his credentials, either through the smuggish curriculum vitae of "The Ministry of Fear" or the cliched condemnation of cliches in "Whatever You Say Say Nothing." (7) For Longley, to accuse the public of speaking in cliches is to imply, rather presumptuously, that one has moved beyond cliche, when in fact the accusation has itself become a rhetorical stance, empty and overdone.
The film's visual scheme -- a drab, brownish look -- isn't quite a cliche, but it does weigh it down even further.
So you never even said you wanted to ride for Cliche? That was decided by someone else?
FA Cup cliche: Adding injury to insult as big boys win in first gear.
Almost no cliche has been left unturned here and, even allowing for the intended demographic, these Adventures are more generic than ghostly.
The great writer never dealt in cliche. Instead, he coined phrases which ring down through the generations - about how some of us are looking at the stars and about the way the unspeakable pursue the uneatable.
Ode to the Cliche They have crucified the cliche, They've cut her to the quick.
The 31-year-old feels it is "a bit of a cliche" to propose on Valentine's Day and hopes Scott, her partner of nine years, doesn't ask her for marriage that day, reports mirror.co.uk.
SILENT Cliche can atone for an unfortunate fall at Sedgefield when he returns to the track at Catterick.