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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

With Hartson also "chomping at the bit" - Mowbray's stock phrase for over-enthusiastic strikers - the Albion manager has much to consider for what could be their toughest match of the season to date.

Football: Mowbray weighs up striking options

There are odds for the first cliche or stock phrase from a candidate.

Odds-on tonight's a winner for Tubs

I could be confident that he wouldn't hang on to my submission for four months before returning it saying, "Unfortunately it does not fit our present requirements" or another stock phrase.

the pensione

Any attempt at discipline is usually greeted with the same stock phrase - 'you can't do that, I know my rights'.

Letter: Parents to blame for children's attitudes

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

THE 150TH; Corporal dies in Iraq trying to save pal

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

Time to hear it from the boys

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

"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

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'

"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

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

"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

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

HALF-TIME BURGER; A view from the stands with www.irishleagueforums.co.uk

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!"