cliche 的 2 个定义
- a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but wiser, or strong as an ox.
- a trite or hackneyed plot, character development, use of color, musical expression, etc.
- anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse.
- British Printing. a stereotype or electrotype plate.a reproduction made in a like manner.
- trite; hackneyed; stereotyped; clichéd.
cliche 近义词
overused, hackneyed phrase
更多cliche例句
- Yes, it’s practically a cliché these days, as meditation gets lobbed at us as the cure for everything from overeating to the pain of tough workouts.
- I have acted out my favorite athlete cliché, the one in which a player emerges from the offseason claiming to be in the best shape of his life.
- For dancers like Krishnan — who has lived in North America for the past 30 years — it’s still frustrating when he’s “boxed into annoying” clichés that ask him to act out his heritage.
- One that also would fit right in, as the gear-copy cliché goes, at the bar afterward.
- At a time when we’ve already exhausted all the clichés about the trials of 2020, Kipchoge losing a marathon seems like further proof that the time is out of joint.
- Normally, the idea that a work is “timeless” is both praise and empty cliche.
- Or maybe both cultures got off on a glorious combination of cliche and novelty, even if they disagreed on which was which.
- I'm not sure that artist-chosen shows are of that much curatorial or art-historical use, and anyway they've become a cliche.
- This is a very different situation that cannot be wished away by an increasingly cliche-ridden "moral defense of capitalism."
- I realize how cliche and seemingly insufficient that sounds.
- Von Schlichten described the situation succinctly, in an ancient and unprintable military cliche.
- The beautiful casts of the French medals known to all electrotypers as Cliche moulds are in the alloy No. 3.
- As the cliche goes, "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
- First, Engraved plate or Cliche representing the ornament with which the edge is to be decorated.
- Apart from the comfortable cliche in which she was seen enfolded, Sanchia pleased the eye.