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I could hurl plenty of appreciative adjectives and cliches at Rudyard Kipling's Kim.

Accusations about the big brother state, the nanny state and the jobsworth, form-filling, tick-box, health-and-safety culture gone mad undoubtedly became overdone cliches at times.

There are still frustrating cliches at play (work is an infrequent hobby yet expensive apartments are easily obtained) and a few too many moments of cloying sentimentality, but the film gets a surprising number of things right.

Just about every conversation I had in Wolverhampton reflected aspects of the riots that have become cliches at speed: this one pointed up the national sense that, at least initially, police merely stood and observed.

Just don't use Merriam Webster as your go-to expert; avoid cliches at all costs.

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Picking up chicks in the club is a cliche as at home in early-2000s hip-hop as it is the films of Judd Apatow.

But that was another cliche at the time.

A Cleveland sports failure might be a cliche at this point, but still a popular one.

It's a tired cliche at this point, but few people on their death beds wish they'd spent more time at work.

OITNB creator Kohan recently gave an interview to NPR – ironic, considering that the radio network is lampooned as a middle-class cliche at several points during the series – in which she said, frankly, that Chapman was her "Trojan horse".

I know the "Apple prints money!" joke has become a bit cliche at this point, but seriously: they might as well just take over the US mint.

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