hackneyed expression

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• hackneyed expression — index platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• hackneyed expressions — expression which is used too often, common expression …   English contemporary dictionary

• expression — n. phrase 1) a colloquial; common; elliptical; figurative; fixed; hackneyed, trite; idiomatic; technical expression look 2) an angry; dead pan; grave, serious; happy; intense; pained; pleasant; puzzled, quizzical; vacuous expression (she had a… …   Combinatory dictionary

• platitude — noun absence of meaning, banality, cliche, commonplace expression, commonplace idea, commonplace phrase, dearth of ideas, dull comment, flat saying, hackneyed expression, hackneyed idea, hackneyed phrase, hackneyed saying, inanity, insipid remark …   Law dictionary

• cliché — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. stereotype, plate, cut (See printing); truism, commonplace, platitude; banality, triviality, bromide (inf.). See maxim. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. commonplace, platitude, truism, bromide, stereotype,… …   English dictionary for students

• cliche — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, banalness, bathetic, bromide, byword, catch phrase, catchword, chestnut, cliched, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, corniness, cry, fad word, familiar tune,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• commonplace — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, abstraction, accustomed, ascetic, austere, average, back number, bald, banal, banality, bare, baseborn, below the salt, bewhiskered, bourgeois, bromide, bromidic, campy, candid,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• bromide — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed saying,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• platitude — Synonyms and related words: abstraction, banality, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, familiar tune, general idea, generalization, generalized proposition, glittering generality, hackneyed expression, hackneyed… …   Moby Thesaurus

• commonplace — adj 1. ordinary, usual, general, undistinguished, unimpressive, mediocre, pedestrian, everyday, homely, workaday, Inf. run of the mill; uninteresting, tame, dull, slow, sober; monotonous, boring, tedious, tiresome, wearisome, humdrum, unvaried. 2 …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• platitude — n 1. cliché, truism, commonplace, saying, phrase; Inf. bromide, Sl. chestnut, banality; Inf. drugstore philosophy, old story, twice told tale, old saw, old song, familiar tune; hackneyed expression, triviality, prosaicism, stereotyped expression …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder