Meanings of hackneyed phrase in anglès

The hackneyed phrase would continually ring in his brain of-Neveragain-neveragain!

Politicians, to borrow a hackneyed phrase, campaign in poetry but govern in prose.

To use a hackneyed phrase, the room swam around Mr.

The hackneyed phrase came warm and unintended to Castle's tongue.

Miles and miles of bloody Africa-thehackneyed phrase seemed apt.

These call for efforts to win "hearts and minds", in that hackneyed phrase.

To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself.

How easy the hackneyed phrase "taking steps" sounded to Caius!

Miss Van Tuyn suppressed a smile at the absurd and hackneyed phrase, which reminded her of picture papers.

Still unaccustomed to any finery, she showed the timidity-touse a hackneyed phrase -inseparablefrom a first appearance.

Alan Hague London Please can we have a moratorium on the use of the hackneyed phrase "save the planet"?

Many English readers used to say that the novels of George Eliot were "profoundly sad,"-itbecame almost a hackneyed phrase.

The hackneyed phrase is that if Ireland "only had the weather" it would be a great little country but a Trinity College(...)

He is simply a grand old man-thefirst I have ever known for whom the hackneyed phrase seemed to have been made, she asserted warmly.

He dreaded the horrible and hackneyed phrase which every fresh intimacy either with man or woman would inevitably evoke, and he hated it beyond reason.

It's a good reminder that even hackneyed phrases can still have explanatory power.