Yes, that sounds like a cliche, something people do when eulogizing a famous, well liked person.
However many times journalists say it and turn it into a cliche, it's history.
It's been repeated so often that it's become a cliche, but I still want to pin down the facts.
It seems a cliche, but being a woman in this business is still incredibly difficult.
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The idea that powerful or intimidating women spells trouble for a relationship is something close to a cliche.
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Of course, if this is true the game runs up against something of a cliche in the process.
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And you know, there's a cliche about this - they can only hurt you, they can't really help you very much.
"All we can do, and it may sound a cliche, is keep on winning games trying to get some momentum building up to Australia for our own confidence levels, " Swann said.
At age 87, he easily had the most modern ears in the room, and took her to task for singing a phrase with a flatted fifth in it a cliche in the jazz idiom for many decades.
As you will know (don't yawn) if you read this column, this economic malaise has been characterised by many weak businesses being put on life support and turned into the living dead, or (to use what is now a cliche, so sorry) zombies.
"Kids' music parents will love" is a tired cliche and often constitutes false advertising.
Meanwhile, Apple's TV ads made "there's an app for that" into a catchphase and a headline cliche.
Dr Williams, interviewed told Radio Times, said English cathedral congregations had grown dramatically in recent years and he described the idea the Church of England was fading away as a "cliche".
Mild-mannered and self-effacing, Mr. Liodice transformed the annual conference from a cocktail-and-golf boondoggle cliche into a marketing TED-like event, with an inspiring and energetically relevant agenda, where the focus is on learning and useful dialogue (laced with networking, entertainment, and of course, a bit of cocktails and golf).
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Some will say that shows the FSA is not, to use the cliche, a joined-up organisation, since it was aware Barclays would be severely punished for lying about interest rates.
In a campaign replete with marketing genius and every cliche you can think of, Hasbro is encouraging fans of a special Facebook page to vote daily until February 5 for the token they want to save and for the one they want added.
Speaking "Note to self, " however cliche, creates a message reminder for you later.
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Defense wins championships, the cliche goes, but a potent offense can keep a winning streak going, and the Lakers knew they had it.
Of course, hindsight, as the cliche goes, is a wonderful thing.
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The Patriots were chasing a place as the Supreme Team of All-Ever Awesomeness, and that 17-14 Giants upset was a slingshot rock right into whatever weepy eyeball cliche you want to employ.
The old cliche used to justify the establishment of a common EU foreign policy is that an American president needs to know who in Europe to ring in a crisis.
This cannot make for a very happy place, and the city's "resilient spirit" has now become the cruellest Indian cliche.
And to use the cliche of the season, it has been seen as one of Senator Hillary Clinton's firewalls, a state where the demographic playing field in the state Democratic Party tilt her way.
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