The phrase "hackneyed phrases" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to overused or trite expressions that lack originality or meaning. Example: The author's overuse of hackneyed phrases made the writing seem cliche and unoriginal.
And he became one of the few big-game voices who could handle football, tennis and golf without egotism, shtick, hackneyed phrases or trademark calls.
But after Mr. Zweig, despondent over the advances of the Nazis, took his own life here a few months later at age 60 in a suicide pact with his young wife, Lotte, he became known in his adopted country for creating one of most hackneyed phrases ever associated with Brazil: "Country of the Future".
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He quoted founding documents – nothing new, just the most hackneyed phrases.
When greeting a customer, avoid hackneyed phrases like, "May I help you?" You might try keeping in mind a picture of meeting someone you don't know at a wedding reception and starting a conversation.
There is something of the hammy intensity of made-for-TV movies in the hackneyed phrases that crop up now and then: "It was a day like any other"; "How different it all could have been"; "That sinking feeling".
In a serious context, the colloquial (and hackneyed) phrase was jarring.
But he has discovered that - in that hackneyed phrase - he wants "to contribute".
The hackneyed phrase at the end repeats what is in the quote.
Vast majority is an imprecise and hackneyed phrase, but presumably it is above 75percentt.
Yes, it's a hackneyed phrase, but politics is the art of the possible.
