cliché: [19] Originally, French clicher meant literally ‘stereotype’ – that is, ‘print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printing surface’. The word was supposedly imitative of the sound made when the mould was dropped into the molten type metal. Hence a word or phrase that was cliché – had literally been repeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate – had become hackneyed.
cliche (n.)
1825, "electrotype, stereotype," from French cliché, a technical word in printer's jargon for "stereotype block," noun use of past participle of clicher "to click" (18c.), supposedly echoic of the sound of a mold striking molten metal. Figurative extension to "trite phrase, worn-out expression" is first attested 1888, following the course of stereotype. Related: Cliched (1928).
例文
1. To use a well-worn cliche ，it is packed with information.
古くさいことを言うと、その内容は詳細である。
2.I 've learned that the cliche about life not being fair is true.
「人生は不公平だ」という古い言葉に間違いはないことに気づいた。
3.You should always try to avoid the use of cliche .
ステレオタイプの使用はできるだけ避けるべきです。
4.He talks uninterestingly in boring cliche& ; 1& ; s.