Any writing expert will tell you: If you want to get your message across, avoid clichés. The problem is, no one seems to know what, exactly, a cliché is. Is it an overused sentence like “The grass is ...

Darthdusty asked the Other Software & Services forum about software that will “detect and alert” him when he types certain phrases. It sounds like you need a cliché detector–software that can catch a ...

Our modern language has experienced a slow creep of meaningless words and phrases—both written and spoken—that not only fail to express ideas clearly, but also impede communication because they become ...

I currently find myself surprisingly drawn to the comfort afforded by well-worn clichés: I must take things a day at a time. Tomorrow is another day. The grass is always greener. Time flies. There are ...

A cliché is a phrase or opinion that feels overused and lacking in original thought. We call something a cliché when we’ve heard it a million times, so often that any meaning it once had has been ...