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/kliʃˈeɪ/ Listen

noun

Cliche n.

A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

A trite or obvious remark.

Synonyms: platitude, banality, commonplace, bromide.

Cliche casting, a mode of obtaining an impression from a die or woodcut, or the like, by striking it suddenly upon metal which has been fused and is just becoming solid; also, the casting so obtained.

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Etymology of 'Cliche'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cliche" Quotes from Famous Books

... B. Memoirs, Gardendale, California, 1939. The book never was published; it was merely printed to satisfy the senescent vanity of a property-worshiping, cliche-parroting reactionary who made money ranching before he became governor of Wyoming. He tells a few good anecdotes of range days. Numerous better books pertaining to the range are NOT listed here; this mediocrity ...

— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie

... Congressional Library, at three-fifteen one afternoon last week—' One afternoon last week!" He cursed luridly. "Why couldn't that blasted magazine say what afternoon? I've gone over a lot of twentieth century copies of that magazine; that expression was a regular cliche with them." ...

— The Return • H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

... finished he had the gratification of recognising at least one Hilda that he knew. The newspapers found in her interpretation the development of a soul, and one remembered, reading them, that a cliche is a valuable thing in a hurry. A phrase which spoke of a soul bruised out of life and rushing to annihilation would have been more precise. The demand upon her increased steadily as the act went on, and as she met it there slipped into her acting some of her own potentialities ...

— The Path of a Star • Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

... precisely 9:50 a.m., Kyle became First Imperator of Terra. His coup was so fantastically direct and facile that I am almost tempted to believe that old cliche "the time ...

— With a Vengeance • J. B. Woodley

... described the situation succinctly, in an ancient and unprintable military cliche. "Try landing south of the Reservation, a little west of the ruins of the labor-camp," he advised. "The bulk of Firkked's army is in that section, and I want them run out as soon as possible. We'll give you all the contragravity and ...

— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr