Last week, I wrote about half of the “Top 20 Figures of Speech.” As I was re-reading ... lose their muscle if you use clichés with them. Cliches are called clichés for a reason: They ...

At these public meetings, clichés and metaphors and similar figures of speech would come in and out of vogue -- having popularity for a few months then fading away. Someone would hear a phrase ...

That might sound like a bit of a cliché (which it is), but it’s actually quite a nice way of saying that rhetorical devices and figures of speech can transform an ordinary piece of writing or ...

Today, we interview the coiners of two of our most overused cliches. Our first guest is Polly Anna Doubtful, creator of the ...

Harris wants to portray herself as a fresh, new force who is not Donald Trump or Joe Biden; this may be her greatest political advantage, and it was a major theme of her speech. She represents ...

And it shows how a figure of speech based on a common chemical element can rapidly descend into cliché status.

Musicians sometimes have fragile egos. This points out the danger of using figures of speech wrong. If you use the same one over and over again, it becomes a cliché. Figures of speech are cool ...