Cliched Sentence Examples

Have you ever head anyone say, "Ugh, that's such a cliché,"? Clichés are terms, phrases, or even ideas that, upon their inception, may have been striking and thought-provoking but became unoriginal through repetition and overuse. Popularity made them seem trite, turning them into what we now know as clichés. You will recognize many of the examples of clichés below.

As the French poet Gérard de Nerval said, "The first man who compared a woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."

A snowclone sounds like it could be cool (Is it a weather event? A ski move? A new kind of dessert?) but in fact, the term is almost always used pejoratively. It’s a template device often used in memes and clichés where X, Y, Z, etc. can be replaced by any word. So: to snowclone or not to snowclone? Let’s answer that question.