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 ...
Source: “Thinking It Over,” by Thomas Waterman Wood, 1884, FP - XIX - W8792, no. 2, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Much of the advice we receive consists of ...