as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
an op-ed piece that's offers nothing but warmed-over chestnuts for solving the city's financial woes
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Recent Examples of chestnut
The smoky vanilla and chestnut notes complement Moon Dust’s palo santo beautifully, while the warmth grounds the herbal brightness.
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Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 21 Mar. 2025
But here in the Mediterranean, these chestnuts had lived for centuries, providing nourishment for humans and animals as well as timber for shelter and economic sustenance.
—Ben Seal, JSTOR Daily, 19 Mar. 2025
Cement stairs quickly gave way to a cobblestoned mule track that led through groves of chestnut and holm oak.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
Bitter chocolate brown emerged as the new black, complemented by tan and chestnut.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
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Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 21 Mar. 2025
But here in the Mediterranean, these chestnuts had lived for centuries, providing nourishment for humans and animals as well as timber for shelter and economic sustenance.
—Ben Seal, JSTOR Daily, 19 Mar. 2025
Cement stairs quickly gave way to a cobblestoned mule track that led through groves of chestnut and holm oak.
—Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Travel + Leisure, 13 Mar. 2025
Bitter chocolate brown emerged as the new black, complemented by tan and chestnut.
—Rhonda Richford, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chestnut
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During his two-minute tribute, Dr. Robby — who’s suffering from acute existential exhaustion on top of the day’s extra-fine grind — falls back on a handful of cliches.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Apr. 2025
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The song, the first disco hit and an indelible gay anthem, here feels like a pandering cliche.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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The two-dimensional characters communicate in bromides; Lena’s fellow privates, who suffer from the laziest defining characteristics (coarse Southern gal, proper preacher’s daughter, New Yorker), are the worst offenders.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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In place of triumph-of-the-human-spirit bromides, though, what the book delivers is its own kind of cinema, harsh and true.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2024
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But Bluey’s comforted when Calypso tells her a proverb about a farmer who trusts everything will turn out the way it’s meant to be.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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Whitaker nicknamed the place Sparrow Hall, a reference to a medieval saint’s proverb about a sparrow who flies over a royal banquet, feeling only a brief moment of warmth.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
17 Mar. 2025
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Aston Villa and Borussia Dortmund were hoping to thwart Paris Saint-Germain’s and Barcelona’s charge for the Champions League trophy last week, but neither team were able to spin the underdog trope successfully.—
Brett Koremenos,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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So while many will talk about de-dollarization, a treasury bond collapse, runaway inflation – all the usual tropes – those aren’t necessary for gold to surge.—
Clem Chambers,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The President’s sweeping orders confirm the truism that political shifts test the elasticity and resilience of American democracy.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The truism has it that most great New York magazine editors come from away—from the West or the Midwest or across the Atlantic—and arrive with an ability to see what natives don’t.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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Wednesday's bizarre, inexact, and amorphous Rose Garden rally was a series of endless platitudes.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Portuguese novelist José Saramago is a master of such ironies, in which a narrator’s bland clichés and platitudes hang in the air, neither quite owned nor quite disavowed, waiting to be ironized by the action of the novel.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Yesterday’s pangrams were attainability, banality and inability.—
Benjamin Mueller,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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The scene that follows—an intense grief followed by a quick return to the dull and depraved routine of trying to score their next hit—captures both the extremism and the banality of addiction and homelessness.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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Read more The pathetic, slow-motion downfall of Barack Obama Houseguests and fish begin to smell after three days, as the saying goes.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
17 Apr. 2025
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As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.—
Fernanda Galan,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Chestnut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chestnut. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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