Cliche Meaning

/kliˈʃeɪ/
B2

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nounAlternative form of cliché.

"The snowcloneification was surely not far behind, since so many people would already have been familiar enough with this cliche of philosophy."— 2011 January 5, “I X therefore I am”, in The Snowclones Database:

verbAlternative form of cliché.

That phrase has become a cliche.
Try to avoid cliches in your writing.
The cream exploded into a cliche in the author's coffee mug.
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