Questions tagged [cliche]

What are people trying to imply by using the phrase "just saying"? It sometimes seems they are trying to lessen the negative impact of a prior statement, or perhaps adding legitimacy to it. Perhaps it is only used because it is popular and makes a…

How best to say this? I can think of "carelessly" or "throwaway" but suppose the following sentence: "Such clichés are often used with little thought" Is there a better way to say this? Something in my mind keeps nagging that there is. The…

I'm playing around with AutoCrit trying to improve something and I was looking at its cliche report. My most flagged one is the phrase "as if". But I use it like this: The whole thing seemed as if it would give way at any moment. Is this still…