Any writing expert will tell you: If you want to get your message across, avoid clichés. The problem is, no one seems to know what, exactly, a cliché is. Is it an overused sentence like “The grass is ...

Jon Foster-Pedley is associate Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Reading and dean and director of Henley Business School Africa. It is what it is. It’s in God’s hands. The elephant in the room.

Our modern language has experienced a slow creep of meaningless words and phrases—both written and spoken—that not only fail to express ideas clearly, but also impede communication because they become ...

A cliché is a phrase or opinion that feels overused and lacking in original thought. We call something a cliché when we’ve heard it a million times, so often that any meaning it once had has been ...

I currently find myself surprisingly drawn to the comfort afforded by well-worn clichés: I must take things a day at a time. Tomorrow is another day. The grass is always greener. Time flies. There are ...

Had an earful of overused sports words? Let's start vilifying cliches by referring to them only by their first letter. For example, "momentum" could become the M-word. Now the language of sports. Flip ...