old chestnut

episode gag narration narrative reminiscence short story sketch tale tall tale yarn

chestnut incident recital relation

fairy tale fish story long and short of it tall story

platitude

adage boiler buzzword chestnut corn hokum plate saw trivia triviality truism

cliché dullsville familiar tune high camp old saw prosaicism prosaism trite phrase

coinage nuance original saying

fantasy fiction legend myth parable tale yarn

allegory apologue bestiary bunk crock fabrication falsehood fib figment hogwash invention lie romance untruth whopper

fairy story fairy tale fish story old saw one for the birds tall story white lie

nonfiction truth

sense

banality bromide

buzzword chestnut commonplace corn evenness flatness hokum inanity insipidity monotony motto potboiler proverb saw shibboleth stereotype tag triteness triviality truism vapidity verbiage

boiler plate cliché familiar tune hackneyed saying high camp old story prosaicism trite remark

coinage nuance