cliche

It’s a cliche: He lit up a room, but he really was everybody’s best friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s so common it’s become something of a cliche.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He said while this "sounds like a big cliche", he found that moment emotional and was "very proud to be here and very proud to represent my country".

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

In a two-star review the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw said the movie is "rammed with every music-movie cliche" and plays "like a 127-minute trailer montage".

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

But the aptness of the cliched saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliche.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

“I’d vote for a woman, just not that woman” is a dark cliché for a reason.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

A cliché in depictions of flyover country is that people’s staid behavior disguises their bizarre depths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Has my diagnosis taught me any lessons valuable enough to pass on? The cliché is live each day as if it's your last and treasure every moment."

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But the murky situation didn’t stop commenters from falling back on a cliché of cancellation: “I never liked his stuff anyway.”

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The ship, as the cliché says, was very small, and on the ship, I was correspondingly even more tiny, so that one would think I would feel dwarfed, alienated in some way.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Jerry will point out poetic elements of the songs, explain rhythm, similes and metaphors, internal rhymes, clichés, split perspective and different types of rhyme schemes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

But DC’s latest installment lands like a big hunk of Kryptonite for the dream of a superhero franchise that can transcend the genre’s clichés, Slate’s Dana Stevens writes.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Like most clichés, this one contains truth, but its expression sounds like an excuse to keep quiet and do nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

Not just with objective wonder at the rising of a truth, fragmentary or not, up through what often seemed to be an impenetrable mass of prejudices, clichés, and bromides.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger