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 ...

But for the first time I became conscious of the illogicality of that figure of everyday speech which, with overuse, has become a cliche. When we see whatever it is that we see, it has to be with ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Calling all clichés — a betting site wants users to wager on which overused expression President Obama will utter first during Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. The most popular pick so ...