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Clichés often are employed for comedic effect, typically in fiction. Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking but have lost...

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...

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...

where the incoming British ambassador Christopher Meyer banned the "hackneyed phrase" from the embassy. The election of British prime minister Tony Blair...

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...

and bustling development were one in a scarcely imaginable way. The hackneyed phrase about organic construction acquired a meaning of its own. Upon completion...

it be recognized as both hackneyed and outdated.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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

Australia. 20 June 1918. p. 6. Retrieved 23 April 2020 – via Trove. "Hackneyed Phrases". The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal. New South Wales, Australia...

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...

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...

that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 phonetic units (called on in Japanese, which are similar...

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...

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...

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...

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...

without lives or souls—into the fabric of Shange's literary work. The hackneyed melodramas get him from one poem to the next but run roughshod over the...