English-Spanish translations for cliché

• cliché
  Dos cosas: unos clichés y una prórroga. The answer is, two things, a few clichés and a reprieve.
  Segundo gran cliché, Europa habría resistido, pero el Japón la abandonó. The second great cliché is that Europe would have held out, but was abandoned by Japan.
  Es un cliché, pero no por ello menos cierto, que una decisión vale según su grado de aplicación. It is a cliché, but true nonetheless, that every decision is worth however much of it is implemented.
• clisé
• tópico
  Esto me parece echar mano de los tópicos. I see this as resorting to clichés.
  Podría haber citado algunos otros tópicos, pero solo son tópicos porque dicen la verdad. He could have quoted a number of other clichés, but they are only clichés because they are true.
  Por tanto, no estamos hablando de tópicos, sino de realidad. We are therefore not talking about clichés, but about reality.

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.

Related words

• cliche
• clichéd
• tired clichés