How to use clichés

I love this definition from Wikipedia:

In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable

type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase

used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. "Cliché" came to mean such a

ready-made phrase. The French word "cliché" comes from the sound made

when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to

make a printing plate.

To save time and money, then, printers took common phrases and...

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