Cliche
A cliché is a phrase, image, or idea that has been used so often it has lost freshness or impact. In poetry, clichés can make a line feel predictable or familiar, so writers often revise them or replace them with more original language.
An overused word or phrase.
Example
The moon was a silver coin in a velvet sky,
a phrase so worn it hardly shone at all.
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Related Definitions
[n] a trite or obvious remark
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Related Terms
abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune, familiarness, fustiness, general idea