Thesaurus / potboiler
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I went into the house to fetch the required sum, and, by some means I cannot explain, got to work again upon the latest potboiler.
MR. PUNCH IN BOHEMIAVARIOUSThat odious Milord Potboiler amuses himself by making poor Theodore hide in my dressing-room and stand there half the day.
SCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFEHONORE DE BALZACFanny's First Play, being but a potboiler, needs no preface.
FANNY'S FIRST PLAYGEORGE BERNARD SHAWWORDS RELATED TO POTBOILER
- banality
- boiler plate
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- cliché
- commonplace
- corn
- evenness
- familiar tune
- flatness
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- monotony
- motto
- old chestnut
- old story
- potboiler
- prosaicism
- proverb
- saw
- shibboleth
- stereotype
- tag
- trite remark
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- vapidity
- verbiage
- banalities
- boiler plates
- bromides
- buzzwords
- chestnuts
- clichés
- commonplaces
- corns
- evenness
- familiar tunes
- flatnesses
- hackneyed sayings
- high camps
- hokums
- inanity
- insipidities
- monotony
- mottoes
- old chestnuts
- old stories
- potboilers
- prosaicisms
- proverbs
- saws
- shibboleths
- stereotypes
- tags
- trite remarks
- triteness
- trivialities
- truisms
- vapidity
- verbiage
- adventures
- allegories
- anecdotes
- apologues
- articles
- autobiographies
- beats
- biographies
- books
- chronicles
- cliffhangers
- comedies
- contes
- descriptions
- dramas
- epics
- fables
- fairy tales
- fantasies
- features
- fictions
- folktales
- gags
- histories
- informations
- legends
- long and short of its
- memoirs
- myths
- narrations
- narratives
- news items
- nonfiction
- novels
- old saws
- parables
- potboilers
- recitals
- records
- relations
- reports
- romances
- sagas
- scoops
- sequels
- serials
- spiels
- tales
- tragedies
- versions
- yarns
- adventure
- allegory
- anecdote
- apologue
- article
- autobiography
- beat
- biography
- book
- chronicle
- cliffhanger
- comedy
- conte
- description
- drama
- epic
- fable
- fairy tale
- fantasy
- feature
- fiction
- folktale
- gag
- history
- information
- legend
- long and short of it
- memoir
- myth
- narration
- narrative
- news item
- nonfiction
- novel
- old saw
- parable
- potboiler
- recital
- record
- relation
- report
- romance
- saga
- scoop
- sequel
- serial
- spiel
- tale
- tragedy
- version
- yarn
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