cliché
/kliˈt͡ʃe/ · B2 · noun · m
cliché
🔁 cliché = the printing plate that stamps out the same phrase again and again
From French cliché, a printer's stereotype plate that produced identical copies. Its sound, klee-SHEH, is the click of the plate stamping. A worn-out phrase or idea repeated over and over became a cliché.