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[ noun ] a trite or obvious remark

Used in print

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

The expression has become quite a cliche .

The cliche loses its talismanic virtue in the light of a_little history .

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

But what a super Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud_beplastered arguments used so freely , particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes , in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy .

Related terms

remark truism

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