The word "cliché" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a phrase, thought, or situation that has been used so much in a culture or language that it has become predictable or boring. Example: Life is full of clichés, like "love conquers all" and "the early bird catches the worm."
"It's a cliché, but it's true.
Week 3: Workshop focusing on character and dialogue - Tuesday 22nd September The discussion will include naturalism and authenticity, restriction, identity, reliability, sympathy, time and transformation, cliché, observation and detail, interiority and exteriority, activity and psychology, and reader interpretation.
"Telling a story" has become a cliché among publishers pushing for a bestseller; but this is conceivably what readers now desperately want.
Similarly, when the stricken community bonds together to pay for Billy's travel expenses to the climatic audition despite their own obvious hardship, the scene smacks of cliché.
So he follows her home because he just does, and lights all the candles in her private boho cliché garden.
The cliché of work hard, play hard really applies here.
Not an impressive performance from Juventus at all, but you can insert your own cliché about great teams winning even when they play badly here.
It's a cliché to call this kind of game "hypnotic", so I'll avoid that, but it's certainly... calming.
Lee's Bamboozled, made in 2000, took the degrading imagery of slavery and gave it a modern twist, telling the story of a black TV producer (Damon Wayans) who comes up with a minstrel-show format more or less as a joke, but finds there is no offensive cliché that audiences won't lap up.
"They also rely more on topical words that could be almost cliché," found the academics, "and extreme ('breathless') and negative ('bruised') words".
And sure, whining about the winter is cliché, but why did this one stick to our ribs for so long?
