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The term is often used in modern culture for an action or idea that is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Typically pejorative, "clichés" may or may not be true.<ref>Short Story Library [http://shortstory.us.com/2009/05/thick-skin-and-writing-cliche-but-true/ Thick skin and writing, cliché, but true] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100226023613/http://shortstory.us.com/2009/05/thick-skin-and-writing-cliche-but-true/ |date=2010-02-26 }} - Published By Casey Quinn • May 10th, 2009 • Category: Casey's Corner</ref> Some are [[stereotype]]s, but some are simply [[truism]]s and [[fact]]s.<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Cliche The Free Dictionary - Cliche]</ref> Clichés often are employed for [[comedy|comedic]] effect, typically in fiction.
Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking but have lost their force through overuse.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Mason | first1 = David | author-link1 = David Mason (writer) | last2 = Nims | first2 = John Frederick | author-link2 = John Frederick Nims | year = 1999 | title = Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry | publisher = McGraw-Hill | pages = 126–127 | isbn = 0-07-303180-1}}</ref> The French poet [[Gérard de Nerval]] once said, "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."<ref>[
A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon [[analogy]] or [[exaggeration]] for effect, often drawn from everyday experience.<ref>{{cite book|last=Loewen|first=Nancy|title=Talking Turkey and Other Clichés We Say|year=2011|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-1404862722|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Definition of Cliché|url=http://literarydevices.net/cliche/|access-date=3 January 2014}}</ref> Used sparingly, it may succeed, but the use of a cliché in writing, speech, or argument is generally considered a mark of inexperience or a lack of originality.
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