clichén.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkliːʃeɪ/, U.S.

/kliˈʃeɪ/,

/ˈkliˌʃeɪ/,

/klɪˈʃeɪ/

Forms: 1800s– cliche, 1800s– cliché, 1800s– clichee, 1800s– clichée, 1900s– clitch (humorous and nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cliché.

Etymology: < French cliché (in printing) stereotype block (1809), (in photography) negative (1850 in cliché négatif in the passage translated in quot. 1850 at sense A. 2), expression regarded as unoriginal or trite (1869), use as noun of the past participle of clicher (in printing) to strike molten metal in order to make a cast (end of the 18th cent.), ultimately of imitative origin (compare similarly cliquer : see click v.¹).With the semantic development of sense A. 3 compare similarly stereotype n. 3.

A. n.

1. Printing. A stereotype, electrotype, or other plate used for printing an image; (originally) spec. a stereotype of a wood engraving made by impressing a matrix into the surface of molten metal (= dab n.¹ 9) (now chiefly historical); †the process of making such a stereotype (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc. > cast or print

cliché1817

polytype1839

chemitype1846

electro1862

1817 Monthly Mag. May 340/1 Being able to multiply the matrices of the same subject by means of a counter-proof, the cliché only is superior to it.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 74 A process for Copying, called in France Clichée.

1868 C. Darwin in Life (1887) III. 87 Engelmann has..offered me clichés of the woodcuts.

1951 R. J. Sutton Stamp Collector's Encycl. 190 The inked image is below the plane surface of the plate, cliché, block or cylinder.

1996 B. Stinton in Looking Good (RAPRA Technol. Ltd) viii. 1 In traditional form the machines are ‘open’..whereby the cliché (printing plate) has a deposit of ink spread across it.

2004 Stamp Mag. Aug. 66/2 Its closest ‘cousins’ in philately are the French tête bêche errors, created when one cliché was inverted in error on the stamp plate.

†2. A photographic negative. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1850 T. Cousins tr. G. Le Gray Pract. Treat. Photogr. i. 14 Place the negative cliche upon the lower glass of the pressure frame.

1892 Amer. Ann. Photogr. 99 A slight tone in the glassy portions of the matrix visible after development would result in a monotonous cliché.

1917 Workshop Receipts (rev. ed.) III. 173/2 The prepared plate is placed, face downwards, against the collodion side of the cliché in the printing frame.

a. A phrase or expression regarded as unoriginal or trite due to overuse. Also as a mass noun.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > cliché

glittering generality1849

cliché1881

thought-saver1931

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > mechanical quality > writing or expression

nominy?1746

stereotype1850

cliché1881

boilerplate1891

1881 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 281/1 He was evidently devoted to..the constant and facile clichés of diction which characterise Ciceronian prose.

1894 Critic (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 102/1 Reliance on trick and cliché.

1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 151 Carlyle picked out as specimen clichés of the orator, ‘The rights of suffering millions’, and ‘the divine gift of song’.

1948 ‘E. Crispin’ Buried for Pleasure vi. 43 The command of cliché comes of having had a literary training.

1966 Guardian 15 Mar. 18/8 ‘This will not do,’ he [sc. Ernest Bevin] once said, rejecting a draft speech... ‘It just goes on from clitch to clitch.’

1978 Reader's Digest Jan. 46 I used to use clichés all the time, but now I avoid 'em like the plague.

2004 Retro Gamer No. 10. 68/2 If I were looking to pull a special phrase out of the book of journalistic clichés.., then I'd say it's a Marmite game—you either love it or hate it.

b. A very predictable or unoriginal person or thing; a trite or stereotyped idea of someone or something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > stereotype > [noun]

cliché1895

stereotype1922

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity > trite or banal thing or activity

hack1710

banality1861

quotidian1902

cliché1934

banalization1968

1895 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 3/2 The farcical American woman who ‘wakes everybody up’ with her bounding vulgarities..is rapidly becoming a cliché, both on the stage and in fiction.

1934 P. A. Markov Soviet Theatre iv. 74 He frees himself from..the newly-established æsthetic cliché with its refined and beautified movements.

1979 D. Thomas Swinburne i. 14 Swinburne's early childhood mirrors the cliché of a Victorian idyll of smooth lawns and summer waves.

2015 Daily Mirror 5 Feb. 25 She's a Big Brother cliche come to life: she's being herself.

B. adj.

Hackneyed, trite; = clichéd adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical

vinnied1563

overworn1578

seta1616

stock1738

hackneyed1747

commonplace1801

stereotype1824

stereotyped1849

hacky1862

stereotypic1884

cliché1895

cliché-ridden1920

clichéd1925

1895 Chap-bk. 15 Nov. 21 The ‘cliché’ metaphor, by the way, is itself becoming a ‘cliché’, so stereotyped do we grow in protesting against the stereotyped.

1922 F. R. Burrow My Tournaments 86 A state of mind which not even the cliché-est of reporters could possibly have described by the usual official epithets of ‘courteous and genial’.

1948 J. Kerouac Jrnl. 6 May in Windblown World (2004) 74 These ideas, old-fashioned and cliché as they are, are actually, today..the fancy damned zeitgeist itself.

1979 N.Y. Mag. 12 Feb. 54/2 Instead of buying a Miro lithograph or any other cliché print, go to SoHo and buy an original work by a young artist.

2001 fRoots Oct. 39/3 That cliché question we ask of all the pundits: where next?

Compounds

C1.

a. Printing. General attributive (in sense A. 1).

ΚΠ

1854 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 Dec. 84/1 When we..are pressed for time, we employ clichee moulds.

1869 G. Dodd Dict. Manuf. 69 When well managed, very sharp impressions are sometimes produced by the cliché method; and casts thus made are now much used as the bases for electrotyping.

1917 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 624. 356 The metal [sc. bismuth] is used as a component of cliché or low melting-point metals and in solders.

1991 E. A. Muccio Plastic Part Technol. ix. 226 Behind the cliche plate is the ink well.

b. General attributive and objective (in sense A. 3).

ΚΠ

1904 Leisure Hour Jan. 259/1 He is no cliché monger.

1955 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 19 Oct. 3/1 Something, as the cliche peddlers say, has got to give.

1968 Guardian 17 Feb. 8/6 Last-ditch pleas began rolling from the Westminster cliché machine.

1996 W. Redfern M. Tournier xi. 87 Society is a vast cliché factory.

2009 J. Feinstein Change-up iii. 29 You..have the cliché handbook down.

C2.

a. Instrumental (in sense A. 3), as cliché-filled, cliché-strewn, etc.

ΚΠ

1922 A. Williams-Ellis Anat. Poetry iv. xvii. 159 The borrowed or cliche-filled opening lines..made it impossible for the reader to enjoy the remaining excellence of the sonnet.

1950 Bakersfield Californian 19 Aug. 19/4 He has developed a flimsy and cliche-filled romance.

1984 C. A. Price H. Purcell & London Stage ii. 83 This song transforms Norton's cliché-strewn lyric into something noble.

2014 W. Logan Guilty Knowl., Guilty Pleasure 236 This cliché-addled, Time magazine–style rush to literary judgment is dispiriting but hilarious.

cliché-ridden adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical

vinnied1563

overworn1578

seta1616

stock1738

hackneyed1747

commonplace1801

stereotype1824

stereotyped1849

hacky1862

stereotypic1884

cliché1895

cliché-ridden1920

clichéd1925

1920 Observer 30 May 10 The intervals were filled with..cliché-ridden conversation.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Nov. 413/4 The middle section..begins with a cliché-ridden trifle.

2004 H. Foote Genesis Amer. Playwright v. 210 Most of the acting and writing was old fashioned and cliché-ridden.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cliché
释义	clichén.adj. Brit. /ˈkliːʃeɪ/, U.S. /kliˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkliˌʃeɪ/, /klɪˈʃeɪ/ Forms: 1800s– cliche, 1800s– cliché, 1800s– clichee, 1800s– clichée, 1900s– clitch (humorous and nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French cliché. Etymology: < French cliché (in printing) stereotype block (1809), (in photography) negative (1850 in cliché négatif in the passage translated in quot. 1850 at sense A. 2), expression regarded as unoriginal or trite (1869), use as noun of the past participle of clicher (in printing) to strike molten metal in order to make a cast (end of the 18th cent.), ultimately of imitative origin (compare similarly cliquer : see click v.¹).With the semantic development of sense A. 3 compare similarly stereotype n. 3. A. n. 1. Printing. A stereotype, electrotype, or other plate used for printing an image; (originally) spec. a stereotype of a wood engraving made by impressing a matrix into the surface of molten metal (= dab n.¹ 9) (now chiefly historical); †the process of making such a stereotype (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > making of polytypes, etc. > cast or print cliché1817 polytype1839 chemitype1846 electro1862 1817 Monthly Mag. May 340/1 Being able to multiply the matrices of the same subject by means of a counter-proof, the cliché only is superior to it. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 74 A process for Copying, called in France Clichée. 1868 C. Darwin in Life (1887) III. 87 Engelmann has..offered me clichés of the woodcuts. 1951 R. J. Sutton Stamp Collector's Encycl. 190 The inked image is below the plane surface of the plate, cliché, block or cylinder. 1996 B. Stinton in Looking Good (RAPRA Technol. Ltd) viii. 1 In traditional form the machines are ‘open’..whereby the cliché (printing plate) has a deposit of ink spread across it. 2004 Stamp Mag. Aug. 66/2 Its closest ‘cousins’ in philately are the French tête bêche errors, created when one cliché was inverted in error on the stamp plate. †2. A photographic negative. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1850 T. Cousins tr. G. Le Gray Pract. Treat. Photogr. i. 14 Place the negative cliche upon the lower glass of the pressure frame. 1892 Amer. Ann. Photogr. 99 A slight tone in the glassy portions of the matrix visible after development would result in a monotonous cliché. 1917 Workshop Receipts (rev. ed.) III. 173/2 The prepared plate is placed, face downwards, against the collodion side of the cliché in the printing frame. 3. a. A phrase or expression regarded as unoriginal or trite due to overuse. Also as a mass noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > phrase > [noun] > cliché glittering generality1849 cliché1881 thought-saver1931 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [noun] > mechanical quality > writing or expression nominy?1746 stereotype1850 cliché1881 boilerplate1891 1881 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 281/1 He was evidently devoted to..the constant and facile clichés of diction which characterise Ciceronian prose. 1894 Critic (N.Y.) 18 Aug. 102/1 Reliance on trick and cliché. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 151 Carlyle picked out as specimen clichés of the orator, ‘The rights of suffering millions’, and ‘the divine gift of song’. 1948 ‘E. Crispin’ Buried for Pleasure vi. 43 The command of cliché comes of having had a literary training. 1966 Guardian 15 Mar. 18/8 ‘This will not do,’ he [sc. Ernest Bevin] once said, rejecting a draft speech... ‘It just goes on from clitch to clitch.’ 1978 Reader's Digest Jan. 46 I used to use clichés all the time, but now I avoid 'em like the plague. 2004 Retro Gamer No. 10. 68/2 If I were looking to pull a special phrase out of the book of journalistic clichés.., then I'd say it's a Marmite game—you either love it or hate it. b. A very predictable or unoriginal person or thing; a trite or stereotyped idea of someone or something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > stereotype > [noun] cliché1895 stereotype1922 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull thing or activity > trite or banal thing or activity hack1710 banality1861 quotidian1902 cliché1934 banalization1968 1895 Westm. Gaz. 19 Apr. 3/2 The farcical American woman who ‘wakes everybody up’ with her bounding vulgarities..is rapidly becoming a cliché, both on the stage and in fiction. 1934 P. A. Markov Soviet Theatre iv. 74 He frees himself from..the newly-established æsthetic cliché with its refined and beautified movements. 1979 D. Thomas Swinburne i. 14 Swinburne's early childhood mirrors the cliché of a Victorian idyll of smooth lawns and summer waves. 2015 Daily Mirror 5 Feb. 25 She's a Big Brother cliche come to life: she's being herself. B. adj. Hackneyed, trite; = clichéd adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical vinnied1563 overworn1578 seta1616 stock1738 hackneyed1747 commonplace1801 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 hacky1862 stereotypic1884 cliché1895 cliché-ridden1920 clichéd1925 1895 Chap-bk. 15 Nov. 21 The ‘cliché’ metaphor, by the way, is itself becoming a ‘cliché’, so stereotyped do we grow in protesting against the stereotyped. 1922 F. R. Burrow My Tournaments 86 A state of mind which not even the cliché-est of reporters could possibly have described by the usual official epithets of ‘courteous and genial’. 1948 J. Kerouac Jrnl. 6 May in Windblown World (2004) 74 These ideas, old-fashioned and cliché as they are, are actually, today..the fancy damned zeitgeist itself. 1979 N.Y. Mag. 12 Feb. 54/2 Instead of buying a Miro lithograph or any other cliché print, go to SoHo and buy an original work by a young artist. 2001 fRoots Oct. 39/3 That cliché question we ask of all the pundits: where next? Compounds C1. a. Printing. General attributive (in sense A. 1). ΚΠ 1854 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 22 Dec. 84/1 When we..are pressed for time, we employ clichee moulds. 1869 G. Dodd Dict. Manuf. 69 When well managed, very sharp impressions are sometimes produced by the cliché method; and casts thus made are now much used as the bases for electrotyping. 1917 Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 624. 356 The metal [sc. bismuth] is used as a component of cliché or low melting-point metals and in solders. 1991 E. A. Muccio Plastic Part Technol. ix. 226 Behind the cliche plate is the ink well. b. General attributive and objective (in sense A. 3). ΚΠ 1904 Leisure Hour Jan. 259/1 He is no cliché monger. 1955 Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun 19 Oct. 3/1 Something, as the cliche peddlers say, has got to give. 1968 Guardian 17 Feb. 8/6 Last-ditch pleas began rolling from the Westminster cliché machine. 1996 W. Redfern M. Tournier xi. 87 Society is a vast cliché factory. 2009 J. Feinstein Change-up iii. 29 You..have the cliché handbook down. C2. a. Instrumental (in sense A. 3), as cliché-filled, cliché-strewn, etc. ΚΠ 1922 A. Williams-Ellis Anat. Poetry iv. xvii. 159 The borrowed or cliche-filled opening lines..made it impossible for the reader to enjoy the remaining excellence of the sonnet. 1950 Bakersfield Californian 19 Aug. 19/4 He has developed a flimsy and cliche-filled romance. 1984 C. A. Price H. Purcell & London Stage ii. 83 This song transforms Norton's cliché-strewn lyric into something noble. 2014 W. Logan Guilty Knowl., Guilty Pleasure 236 This cliché-addled, Time magazine–style rush to literary judgment is dispiriting but hilarious. b. cliché-ridden adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > dull > stale or mechanical vinnied1563 overworn1578 seta1616 stock1738 hackneyed1747 commonplace1801 stereotype1824 stereotyped1849 hacky1862 stereotypic1884 cliché1895 cliché-ridden1920 clichéd1925 1920 Observer 30 May 10 The intervals were filled with..cliché-ridden conversation. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Nov. 413/4 The middle section..begins with a cliché-ridden trifle. 2004 H. Foote Genesis Amer. Playwright v. 210 Most of the acting and writing was old fashioned and cliché-ridden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1817
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