| cliche abstraction banality banalness bathetic bromide byword catch phrase catchword chestnut cliched commonness commonplace commonplace expression commonplaceness corn corniness cry fad word familiar tune familiarness fustiness general idea generalization generalized proposition glittering generality hack hackneyed hackneyed expression hackneyed saying hackneyedness lieu commun locus communis mustiness old joke old saw old song old story pet expression platitude platitudinousness prosaicism prosaism prose reiteration retold story rubber stamp shibboleth slogan squareness stale staleness stereotype stereotyped saying sweeping statement tag timeworn tired cliche trite saying triteness triticism truism twice-told tale unoriginality vogue word |