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trite phrase
noun as in banality
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All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase—for no other is so expressive—it was like a dream.
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In our own country it is a trite phrase that a man has a "Puritan code of ethics," or as "straight laced as a Puritan."
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All this had been so sudden that, to use the trite phrase,—for no other is so expressive,—it was like a dream.
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A person, to use a trite phrase, must be a Whig or a Tory in a lump.
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A trite phrase expresses it that a newspaper is the "voice of the people."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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