cliché

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cliché /ˈkliːʃeɪ/ (also cliche)

▶noun

• 1 a phrase or opinion that is overused and shows a lack of original thought.

  ■ an unoriginal thing: each building is a mishmash of tired clichés.

• 2 Printing, chiefly Brit. a stereotype or electrotype.

– origin C19: Fr., past part. (used as n.) of clicher ‘to stereotype’.