"As old as the hills" and others

Usage examples of cliches.

Dick promptly started considering which of the CosCop regulation cliches to use.

It gleefully mixes political cliches, bitchy reproaches and insults, and moments of absurd overdramatization.

And he never could stand the vapid cliches and disdain for abstraction.

Everybody, but everybody Comes In dead-eyed and puke-white and with their face hanging down around their knees and with a well-thumbed firearm-and-ordnance mail-order catalogue kept safe and available at home, map-wise, for when this last desperate resort of hugs and cliches turns out to be just happy horseshit, for you.

All these terms that became cliches denial, schizogenic, pathogenic family like systems and so on and so forth.

A former acquaintance said The Mad Stork always used to say cliches earned their status as cliches because they were so obviously true.

I came here to learn to live by cliches,' is what Day says to Charlotte Treat right after Randy Lenz asked what time it was, again, at 0825.

I'm still afflicted with just enough self-will to decline to live by utter non sequiturs, as opposed to just good old cliches, I'm taking the liberty of light amendment.

Simple advice like this does seem like a lot of cliches Day's right about how it seems.

It did, yes, tentatively seem maybe actually to be working, but Gately couldn't for the life of him figure out how just sitting on hemorrhoid-hostile folding chairs every night looking at nose-pores and listening to cliches could work.

More weeks went by, a blur of Commitments and meetings and gasper-smoke and cliches, and he still didn't feel anything like his old need to get high.

But in an area filled with clichés, he always finds a way to surprise and entertain you.

In this story, instead of turning the clichés upside down, he pokes fun at them.

Strutting clichés, that spoke volumes about their weaknesses and insecurities.

It's not surprising—clichés breed clichés and educate them into being clichés.