Passing a poisoned chalice is commonplace

Usage examples of cliche.

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.

You would think the most destructive terrorist attack in the history of the world would call for something new, but liberals have simply dusted off the old cliches from the Cold War and trotted them out for the war on terrorism.

Jesus I hate saying something like this, this things-were-different-when-I-was-a-lad-type cliche shit, the sort of cliche fathers back then spouted, assuming he said anything at all.

It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliche, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.

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.

Not because of the cliche - about returning to the scene of the crime - but because Blackwater Landing had always been his stalking ground and whatever kind of trouble he'd gotten himself into over the years he always came back here.

The cliche Latin temperament leaped into Marissa's mind as she looked at the group that had apparently arrived unannounced.

I'm not saying something cliche like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot.

That the cliche 'I don't know who I am' unfortunately turns out to be more than a cliche.

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.