Other forms: cliches
A cliche is a phrase so overused it no longer says anything. Avoid cliches, a tired cliche, a walking cliche.
The problem is not that it is untrue but that it is unread — a reader's eye slides over it. It is often written with an accent on the final e, and either way is accepted in English. The origin is a printer's word: it named a stereotype plate, cast so the same block could be printed again and again.
1nounclicheA phrase so overused it no longer says anything.
“The film was full of cliches, like the hero walking slowly away from an explosion.”
cliche is an overused phrase.
Also accepted in games: cliché
Practised in News & Communication