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- temptation to use meaningless or hackneyed phrases was like a "packet of aspirins always at one's elbow". In particular, such phrases are always ready to form...22 KB (2,825 words) - 12:50, 27 February 2024
- Say's law (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)money is scarce, but because other products are so. ... To use a more hackneyed phrase, people have bought less, because they have made less profit." Say's...44 KB (5,873 words) - 11:51, 6 April 2024
- Bridge Monthly, a British bridge magazine. Iron Duke, Not through the A hackneyed phrase that describes the play of a high card by a player whose high card...224 KB (32,230 words) - 09:41, 26 February 2024
- Special Relationship (category Articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases from April 2020)where the incoming British ambassador Christopher Meyer banned the "hackneyed phrase" from the embassy. The election of British prime minister Tony Blair...228 KB (25,499 words) - 16:38, 17 May 2024
- Run it up the flagpole (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)it be recognized as both hackneyed and outdated. A non-joking equivalent would be "to send up a trial balloon." The phrase was associated with the advertising...3 KB (473 words) - 08:45, 21 May 2024
- and bustling development were one in a scarcely imaginable way. The hackneyed phrase about organic construction acquired a meaning of its own. Upon completion...19 KB (2,488 words) - 11:57, 12 February 2024
- liability. To exclude liability on these grounds would be, to use the hackneyed phrase, to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It would mean that where...14 KB (2,207 words) - 13:48, 29 May 2023
- McCabe wrote of the marriage that: I dislike gush and will say only, in hackneyed phrase but with sincere meaning, that Ingersoll found an ideal mate. As late...10 KB (1,120 words) - 20:59, 21 May 2024
- The Shadow over Innsmouth (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)"has all the defects I deplore—especially in point of style, where hackneyed phrases & rhythms have crept in despite all precautions.... No—I don't intend...42 KB (5,587 words) - 21:04, 18 May 2024
- and enjoyed every minute." Joan Smith was harsher, calling the plot "so hackneyed that it is hard to read without yawning." She went further, lambasting...14 KB (1,303 words) - 20:09, 30 May 2024
- Australia. 20 June 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 23 April 2020 – via Trove. "Hackneyed Phrases". The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal. New South Wales, Australia...6 KB (807 words) - 12:51, 21 April 2021
- inventive" and that it "stakes out unique territory in a world overrun with hackneyed experimentation". Gordon Krieger of Exclaim! described it as a "slow soundtrack...23 KB (2,144 words) - 09:26, 12 May 2024
- charm." Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "Hackneyed horror tropes persist throughout and so does some crushingly exposition-heavy...26 KB (2,639 words) - 18:02, 21 March 2024
- that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 phonetic units (called on in Japanese, which are similar...45 KB (5,441 words) - 19:07, 22 May 2024
- Mo lei tau (category Cantonese words and phrases)be puking right now!" The man promptly starts vomiting. The scene is hackneyed, but can be seen even to this day in the 2005 film Initial D, for example...6 KB (788 words) - 16:44, 20 November 2023
- however, deplored the scatological basis of most of the humour and the hackneyed scenarios in the movie. Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express had this to...35 KB (3,124 words) - 13:41, 24 May 2024
- you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments. They're the kind of people who make a show of discomfort when...22 KB (2,270 words) - 13:23, 1 June 2024
- Lammis, which he found to be impressive and not having to "resort to hackneyed gimmicks". Summarizing that "this novel's bizarre concept is what will...57 KB (3,647 words) - 05:19, 21 April 2024
- History of wood carving (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)imitated today by those who require simple decoration while avoiding the hackneyed Elizabethan forms. It is hard to compare the figure work of England with...68 KB (11,003 words) - 06:23, 22 February 2024
- 0Poems — "Trusts"Mary A. Geisse "TRUSTS." Beware of gluttony! That hackneyed phrase Has been repeated in a score of ways By men renowned for wisdom and
- like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right
- of this old woman when I hear social maladies explained by these hackneyed phrases:—"The superabundance of products," "the tyranny of capital," "an industrial