worn-out expression
Overused figure of speech
A worn-out expression is a phrase so overused it has lost its force or freshness—a cliché.
At the end of the day and it is what it is are worn-out expressions that fill space without adding meaning.
The label is itself a judgment: what strikes one person as tired may feel apt to another.
- clichéOverused, unoriginal expression
- tired phraseExpression drained by overuse
- hackneyedOverused and unoriginal
- triteOverused, lacking freshness
- staleNo longer fresh
same old same old · overused · tired · banal · platitude · threadbare · stock phrase · old chestnut · old hat · beaten path · beating a dead horse · dead metaphor · bromide · chestnut · shopworn · moth-eaten · run into the ground · formulaic
worn-out expressionoriginal expression
Newly invented wording
coinage · neologism · creative expression · mot juste · nonce word
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