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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."

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Origin of the Word Cliché

The word cliché has French origins, which is why you'll often see it with an accent over the "e," but you can also write it as "cliche" in English. When printing presses were used, the cast iron plate that reproduced the words, phrases, or images was called a stereotype. The noise that casting plate made sounded like “cliché,” meaning click, to French printers, so this onomatopoeia word became printer’s jargon for the stereotype. Thus, cliché came to mean a word or phrase that gets repeated often.

Popular Clichés

Just because a phrase is overused doesn't mean it's a cliché, and because a phrase is a cliché doesn't mean it isn't true. A cliché conveys an idea or message but loses its point through over-usage. We'll let you be the judge of these examples of clichés you'll find in everyday use.

Common Cliché Sayings

All that glitters isn't gold

Don’t get your knickers in a twist

All for one, and one for all

Kiss and make up

He has his tail between his legs

And they all lived happily ever after

Cat got your tongue?

Read between the lines

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed

We're not laughing at you we’re laughing with you

Step-by-step explanation:

7

Step-by-step explanation:

A(second row, third column) = 1

a(first row, second column) = 6

1 + 6 = 7

step-by-step explanation:

b is the correct answer