What Is a Cliché? Aclichéis a tired, stale phrase or idiom that, because of overuse, has lost its impact. What was once a fresh way of looking at something has become a weak prop for writing that feels unimaginative and dull. Clichés are what you write when you don’t have the en...
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(Bette, a serious person, would wave only if she were drowning). The smile is ironic, Peter suspects, because, well, here they are, at her behest, and sure, the food is good but then there’s the fringe and the little bandy-legged tables. It’s a stage set, it’swhimsical, for...
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I’ll just go talk a little about one aspect of the explanation: Adam suspects Ewasko got initially lost because of a discrepancy between the maps at the time and the on-the-ground trail situation. See, multiple trails run out of the trailhead Ewasko parked at and through the area he was...
She claimed to have picked it up from students at the University of Nebraska, and one suspects pranking might have been involved. We are told it means very good, but it doesn't turn up in any standard dictionary. It does appear frequently on the internet as an example of a very long—...
“They are doing well. They got good news when the Public Service Commission only approved the alternate route for KXL,” he says. Meanwhile, Genoways sees an American food system in need of reform. “We would benefit mightily from a national food policy,” he says. “How can you explain...