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stock phrase

A well-known, overused phrase; a cliché. As this is a creative writing class, I don't want to see any stock phrases in your stories. Please rewrite this paragraph in your own words, instead of using stock phrases like "think outside the box."

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Earlier (Ford 2006), I showed how lirrga, another Daly song genre, employs allusiveness, puns, repetition, reduplication, ellipsis, stock phrases, and complex clauses.

"Too long, that wangga': analysing wangga texts over time

That is after all the stock phrase they turn to when it comes to troublesome teenagers.

Time to hear it from the boys

Maj Wilson said: "If Will had one stock phrase it was his description of anything and everything as being 'rude'.

HE DIED A HERO; THE 150TH BRITISH SERVICEMAN KILLED IN IRAQ 'Cpl Wilson was a legend, bold, decisive, a father figure to so many young soldiers.. he gave his life so that one of his beloved riflemen might live'

As a kid, Jill's stock phrase was that she wanted to work behind the scenes in television.

Family's message of thanks to public for sympathy

He said: "If Will had one stock phrase, it was his description of anything and everything as being 'rude'.

'Cpl Wilson was a legend, a father figure to so many young soldiers. He gave his life so one of his beloved Riflemen might live..' 150 DEAD IN IRAQ

I don't know how I lived without one before," is the stock phrase.

Mobile phones - tested on humans for irritancy; The ringing of mobile drones is everywhere and Finola Lynch has had eno ugh

I don't know your dad, but tell him I was asking for him," is a stock phrase I have heard so many times in recent days.

DARREN FULLERTON: A get well wish to the silver haired man with the mic

The remark 'we can't buy players or loan them' - which often surfaces in the Wales chief's press conferences - has become something of a stock phrase.

Moss is determined to catch Tosh's eye

IRONS IN THE FIRE - Ronnie McFall's stock phrase for dealing with transfer speculation.

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The words echoed her stock phrase on the Mrs Merton show where she tells her regular audience of pensioners: "Let's have a heated debate

BOYFRIEND'S BRAWL THAT LEFT COMIC IN TEARS

The words echoed her stock phrase on her cult show where she tells her regular audience of pensioners "Let's have a heated debate

If I see him again I'll kill him - Peter 'Right' Hook; FISTS FLY AS MRS MERTON'S HUBBY AND LOVER HAVE 'HEATED DEBATE'

Actually what is striking about them is their cliched nature - he has a fondness for stock phrases.

How Trumpisms have had an influence on English language

My German oral exam was a disaster: 20 minutes spent speaking in a faux Allo, Allo accent, peppered with such stock phrases as "Achtung", "Heinkel" and "Schweinhund".

Trying to break language barrier at German Market? - I really do fear the wurst

On the subject of failure, one of my dad's other stock phrases was: 'Th'as made a reight Honley Feast on it'.

Can any of you solve the mystery of these fascinating phrases?

I think his analysis was a little off-beam in questioning the use of so-called stock phrases.