English-French translations for cliché

  • clichéDeux choses : des clichés et un sursis. The answer is, two things, a few clichés and a reprieve. À mes yeux, il s’agit là de clichés. I see this as resorting to clichés. Deuxième grand cliché, l'Europe aurait tenu, mais le Japon l'a abandonnée. The second great cliché is that Europe would have held out, but was abandoned by Japan.
  • lieu communNous avons une grande part de responsabilité et nous ne pouvons continuer à répéter ce lieu commun: «deux peuples, deux États». We have a great deal of responsibility, and we cannot keep on repeating the cliché about two peoples and two states. Par ailleurs, le lieu commun d’un conditionnement du financement des accords de pêche à des analyses préalables des coûts et des bénéfices n’est pas applicable concrètement à ce stade. Furthermore, the usual cliché of linking the funding of fisheries agreements to prior cost-benefit analyses is not practical at this stage. De là, parler de la question du Timor oriental court le risque de devenir malheureusement un lieu commun parce que rien n'a changé et rien ne s'est amélioré. Speaking of the East Timor question, runs the risk unfortunately of becoming something of a cliché because nothing has changed and nothing has improved.
  • platitude
  • rebattu
  • tarte à la crème

Definition of cliché

  • Something, most often a phrase or expression, that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost. A trite saying; a platitude.
  • A stereotype (printing plate
  • To use a cliché; to make up a word or a name that sounds like a cliché

Examples

  • The villain kidnapping the love interest in a film is a bit of a cliché.

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