Sentence examples for hackneyed metaphor from inspiring English sources

Were this not a hackneyed metaphor for the low starting salaries announced by the AFL last week, most of the women who will pull on the boots in February could probably deal with it – well, only if they'd blown half their wage on private health insurance.

I know it's a hackneyed metaphor, but it has really been a roller coaster ride.

Blundell finds the poems similar to speech patterns and songs the most effective, while she finds others "mired in hackneyed metaphor and forced rhyme".

Perhaps some hackneyed metaphor can be made about how reality TV just slips into your life, inebriates and stupefies you, and then leaves without a trace.

On the other hand, it's a question about how far these measures and other measures would tend to reduce the size of the cake, to put it in a rather hackneyed metaphor.

YOU can't blame Elizabeth Wurtzel ("Prozac Nation") or Eric Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") for creating what became the mother of all headline clichés in 2003, any more than you can blame Saddam Hussein or Sebastian Junger for the perfect storm of hackneyed metaphors in this lousy opening sentence.

Sarah Godfrey of Washington Post commented that the song "is about hackneyed metaphors and big notes — just the sort of combination that will appeal to fans of Aguilera's signature song 'Beautiful.

The trouble with baseball movies like "Trouble With the Curve" is that they tempt reviewers to reach for hackneyed sports metaphors.

During these long stretches, the narrative spell is broken and you become distracted by the slips into dialogue that would be right at home in an episode of "Hawaii Five-O," and by the hackneyed gambling metaphors -- maybe God does play dice with the universe, but if He does, they're loaded".

Over-reliance on hackneyed sports metaphors and the alleged leadership lessons derived from them is certainly not the cause of our current economic distress, but this might be the right time to reconsider their usefulness.

Putting the glossy orchestral backdrop to one side, Chasing Pavements manages to be both hackneyed and the kind of metaphor for pointless pursuit that wouldn't look out of place on a James Blunt album.