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Quotation of the Day: "A cliché may be defined as a word or expression that has lost its original force through overuse. The origin of the term is instructive: in French it imitates the sound made by a printing matrix when it is dropped into hot metal, and it means that language is a stereotype, a printing plate. As printing plates can be reused and reused, the application of 'cliché' to well-word phraseology is reasonable." Anthony Burgess, A Mouthful of Air 370 (1992).
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