Cliches

Despite their truth, sayings like "carpe diem", "live for yourself" and "know your worth" have degenerated into cliches for justifying rudeness, oddness, and apathy, at the hands of TV personalities and columnists. That is what is called "educated ignorance".

Cliches are the enemy of careful observation.

Some cliches are cliches for a good reason.

Cliches abound in my career.

Tatoeba is full of cliches but also of all types of ingenious, informative and absurd sentences.