The phrase "hackneyed cliches" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe overused expressions or ideas that have lost their originality and impact.
Example: "The movie was filled with hackneyed cliches that made it predictable and uninteresting."
Alternatives: "trite phrases" or "overused expressions."
This is one of the dullest, most hackneyed cliches in journalism, always followed by a mournful paean to responsibility.
Trouble is, the moment the studios get their hands on these movies they seem to instantly lose faith in them, gutting out all the things that made them distinctive and replacing them with sentimental homilies and hackneyed cliches.
Cummings also satirised the political abuse of language through hackneyed cliches in Next to of course god America; the poem is a technical tour de force in which he weaves the commonplaces of political discourse into a perfect rhyming sonnet.
Given their clothes marry east and west influences with none of the hackneyed cliches, it seems puzzling that so few celebrities turned up to the Met Ball's China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition on Monday night, wearing creations by Chinese fashion designers.
The end of an era might be hackneyed cliche but rarely has it been more appropriate.
Their prose can be hackneyed, cliche-ridden, and simplistic.
But if ever the hackneyed sporting cliche about giving 110% rang true, it was on Friday night in Zagreb.
As a character, Shea is fragile and understated, but her voiceover puts the ripe in tripe; it's a credit to Browning that she gets through its hackneyed "gangster prince" cliches without laughing.
By all means conform to the required guidelines of the publication in question, but try to avoid cliches, hackneyed turns of phrase, dull prose, and deadly boring content.
The IoT was generally dubbed "the next stage of the information revolution", and the Chancellor unboxed the hackneyed connected fridge cliche during the speech — albeit managing to make it make even less sense than it normally does.
