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hackneyed phrase

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hackneyed
adjective
uk /ˈhæk.nid/ us /ˈhæk.nid/
A hackneyed phrase or idea has been said or used so often that it has become boring and has ...
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phrase
noun[C]
uk /freɪz/ us /freɪz/
language
a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, ...
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Examples of hackneyed phrase


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I sometimes think that the hackneyedphrase, "a conspiracy of silence," is in our days inaccurate.
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To use a rather hackneyedphrase, we are trying to modernise the declaration.
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To borrow a hackneyedphrase, we want to bring the rest up to the standards of the best.
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This is a question, as the hackneyedphrase has it, which brooks no delay.
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I make a particular exception of the dog, who, if you like to use the hackneyedphrase, is the friend of man.
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That was 12 months ago and the means still seem to be, to use that notorious and hackneyedphrase, under consideration.
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It is a rather hackneyedphrase, but hill farmers who produce hill lambs are vitally important.
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I have often used the hackneyedphrase that if goods are not allowed to pass frontiers, armies will.
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They should not simply come out with the politicians' hackneyedphrase about being in listening mode although that is necessary.
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Another hackneyedphrase is "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
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In the hackneyedphrase, the public-house is the working man's club.
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That is a somewhat hackneyedphrase, but, however often repeated, it loses none of its force and none of its truth.
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We are reminded of the hackneyedphrase that not only should justice be done, but be seen to be done.
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It is a very old and hackneyedphrase that education is one of the cures for crime.
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To use a hackneyedphrase, they were not housed but warehoused.
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They are deadly serious because they regard this as the thin end of the wedge, to use a hackneyedphrase.
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Although answers were given, they were, in the now hackneyedphrase, given with a degree of economy with the truth.
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What you want is not subsidies, but work, orders for the employers, just as the workmen, in a hackneyedphrase, want not charity but work.
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In the rather hackneyedphrase often used, we look to them to plant the acorns that will grow into the oaks of tomorrow.
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Not only should there be independence hut, to paraphrase a somewhat hackneyedphrase, that independence prevails should be seen by all.
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