| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
| NUMBER: | 7395 |
| AUTHOR: | John Gross |
| QUOTATION: | The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | On Eric Partridge’s A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, revised by Paul Beale, Stein & Day 85, ib 2 Jan 87 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics |
| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. Copyright © 1988 by James B. Simpson. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | ||||
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