cliché: [19] Originally, French clicher meant literally ‘stereotype’ – that is, ‘print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printing surface’. The word was supposedly imitative of the sound made when the mould was dropped into the molten type metal. Hence a word or phrase that was cliché – had literally been repeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate – had become hackneyed.
cliche (n.)
1825, "electrotype, stereotype," from French cliché, a technical word in printer's jargon for "stereotype block," noun use of past participle of clicher "to click" (18c.), supposedly echoic of the sound of a mold striking molten metal. Figurative extension to "trite phrase, worn-out expression" is first attested 1888, following the course of stereotype. Related: Cliched (1928).
双语例句
1. To use a well-worn cliche, it is packed with information.
说得老套一点，其内容翔实。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I've learned that the cliche about life not being fair is true.
我发现“人生是不公平的”这句老话没有错。
来自柯林斯例句
3. You should always try to avoid the use of cliche.
你应该尽量避免使用陈词滥调.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. He talks uninterestingly in boring cliche & 1 & s.
