I recently noticed that our language is beginning to evolve. I rarely hear some of the cliches or idioms I grew up hearing. I grew up in a household loaded with cliches, idioms, catchphrases and ...

A cliché is a phrase or opinion that feels overused and lacking in original thought. We call something a cliché when we’ve heard it a million times, so often that any meaning it once had has been ...

Now that another season of NFL games has come to an end and our national summer pastime is about to begin, it’s time to swap one set of cliches for another. Sports broadcasting is replete with cliches ...

Even the most casual readers of science news may have come across a few phrases that get used over and over, to the point of becoming extremely annoying. So Wired took it upon itself to compile an ...

I currently find myself surprisingly drawn to the comfort afforded by well-worn clichés: I must take things a day at a time. Tomorrow is another day. The grass is always greener. Time flies. There are ...

Do you hear what we hear? It’s The Times’s annual reminder to avoid overused holiday phrases. Credit...César Debargue Supported by By Mathew Brownstein Mathew Brownstein is a senior news assistant on ...