2007-11-18 10:45:56 · 8 answers · asked by Squeegee Beckingheim :-) 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Yes, I would consider it cliche. Just think how much you have heard it.
2007-11-18 10:53:41 · answer #1 · answered by savemore 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's funny - if I think about it I think that it probably *should* be considered a cliche. But it doesn't bother me the way that most cliches do.
Maybe because often it is used in an ironic form, as a kind of joke. Like if something already looks fantastically difficult, or if it looks easy because it really *is* easy. Used that way, it wouldn't be a cliche.
Even if used without irony, I would probably just consider it trite, uninteresting. For me this is different to a real cliche, such as saying farmers are 'the salt of the earth'.
Does anybody else see this as being different? Just wondering.
2007-11-18 19:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I personally don't think it is, because a cliche is the same thing as an idiom, and it means what it actually says.
2007-11-18 18:53:52 · answer #3 · answered by Varitek Fan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. That is a phase that is trite and overused, and is a cliche.
2007-11-18 18:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by NH Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-11-18 21:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by DR W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-11-18 18:54:15 · answer #6 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without a doubt. It's old hat and as old as the hills
2007-11-18 19:04:15 · answer #7 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is definitely true about a number of different things.
2007-11-18 19:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by waia2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋