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The word cliché is borrowed from French, where it is a past passive participle of clicher, 'to click', used as a noun; cliché is attested from 1825 and originated in the printing trades. [9] The term cliché was adopted as printers' jargon to refer to a stereotype , electrotype, cast plate or block print that could reproduce type or images ...
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language, often passing as folk wisdom, intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance.
[2] "A house divided against itself cannot stand.", opening lines of Abraham Lincoln's famous 1858 "A House Divided" speech, addressing the division between slave states and free states in the United States at the time. "Four score and seven years ago...", opening of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. [3]
With a series of new "dinersodes" -- television ads featuring Denny's customers seated at counters and interacting with servers who could be straight out of Waitress or It Could Happen to You ...
"A 2–0 lead is the worst lead" "Alligator arms" [4] "They have to have a great game for their team to win." [4] "They have to get on the same page." [4] "The media are blowing this out of proportion." [4] "That will come back to haunt them." [4] "I'd like to thank my Lord and savior." [4] "Throw under the bus." [4] "D-Line or O-Line." [4]
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Stereotype (printing), the original sense of the word "cliché" Cliché Magazine , a digital fashion magazine Cliché , a BBC radio comedy sketch show that was followed by the better-known Son of Cliché
The word is a borrowing from the French compound platitude, from plat 'flat' + -(i)tude '-ness', thus 'flatness'. The figurative sense is first attested in French in 1694 in the meaning 'the quality of banality' and in 1740 in the meaning 'a commonplace remark'. It is first attested in English in 1762. [3]