trite phrase

All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase—for no other is so expressive—it was like a dream.

In our own country it is a trite phrase that a man has a "Puritan code of ethics," or as "straight laced as a Puritan."

All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase,—for no other is so expressive,—it was like a dream.

A person, to use a trite phrase, must be a Whig or a Tory in a lump.

A trite phrase expresses it that a newspaper is the "voice of the people."