Excerpted from “It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches.” A breath of fresh air. Few and far between. At the end of the day. Most of us immediately recognize these as ...

Search your inbox for the word “landscape.” Unless you enjoy discussing your gardening with coworkers, you’ll likely find an assortment of AI-generated newsletters and emails stuffed with lazy … The ...

But its felicitous use conveys something more specific than simply "avoid," and a writer for the Boston ... A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches by Orin Hargraves is published by Oxford ...

Following ESPN's groan-inducing Jeremy Lin headline, we'd like like to point out a few more phrases headline writers might want to avoid, not only because they're vaguely racist but also because ...

(Good idea.) Then it made a promise: “Moving forward, I will make a concerted effort to steer clear of cliches in my writing.” Even when I asked specifically for a high-school-graduation ...

If that seems harsh, think of how clichés harm writing, draw unwelcome attention, replace freshness with staleness and rob readers of the pleasure of original expressions that make writing memorable.

Much of Cowley’s writing is informed by living with bipolar ... “We don’t need to stick with these cliches or these stereotypes,” Cowley said. “We can go beyond and write — people.

All clichés are bad. Fact. Or is it? Writer and comedian Dave Cohen argues that for sitcom writers, clichés can be even better than sliced bread... You're watching an audience sitcom on television.

What might be called “the artistic temperament” is a subject about which many people have grandiose, romantic notions. All those biopics with people staring hard out windows at beautiful ...

It is perhaps the most inscrutable piece of music writing ever published, because not only does it imply that some people turn to a band like Cloud Nothings to “be told what to think,” it also ...