(n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it."
(2) What does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean?
(3) Certainly, the galvanising call for submissions brings to mind that inclusive Varsovian adage: “The entire nation builds its capital.” For Warsaw’s reconstruction, though, it was the work of a single artist that provided the crucial blueprint.
(4) It reminds me of the old adage that we teach people how to treat us.
(5) Depending on your tastes, that verdict might either bring to mind Marx’s adage about history being repeated first as tragedy then farce, or the immortal words of Jay Gatsby: “Can’t repeat the past?
(6) The old adage, "You are what you eat," is not always reliable, as demonstrated in this mixed-longitudinal study of men that began in 1969.
(7) Working with researchers at the University of Surrey and being exposed to the wealth of evidence out there, it is clear to me that the old adage "rest is best" no longer applies.
(8) It has some commentators repeating an old adage about newspapers, repeated by Bill Clinton when he was president: "Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
(9) You can only beat what’s put in front of you, as the old adage goes … but the Potters’ recent run of fixtures could scarcely have been kinder: Bournemouth are the only side inside the top 10 they have played in over two months and they beat Mark Hughes’s men.
(10) At the time I thought it was a clever inversion of an old adage, referring to Labour's 18 years in opposition.
(11) As in Aesop's adage, the ego ideal is at the source of the best and the worst of things.
(12) The three dimensional display capabilities of the Adage AGT-30 are used to present the reconstructed structures.
(13) As the African adage says, “a man must be like a flowering pole, he must grow wherever he is planted”.
(14) Diane Abbott is Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Simon Danczuk Simon Danczuk: 'Voters want a party they can trust on immigration' There's an old adage in politics that if you don't think you can win an argument, be sure to change the subject.
(15) Two-and-a-half years on, and regulators have lived up to the adage that those who don't learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
(16) That’s why the government guidelines don’t say, ‘Don’t drink’; they say, ‘OK drink, but only modestly.’ It’s like a little of what doesn’t kill you cures you.” This adage also applies in an unexpected place – to broccoli, the luvvie of the high-street “superfood” detox salad.
(17) Don’t sterilise everything that comes into contact with your child’s mouth, within reason.” In fact, the one piece of advice Arrieta offers mothers is to forget the adage “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” “One thing I don’t do any more – and wish others would stop – is carrying a hand sanitiser gel.
(18) Caraiva, Bahia Steven Chew, contributing editor Conde Nast Traveller There's an adage with remote Brazilian beaches: first go the hippies, then the yachties, then the French ... Caraiva is still at the happy-hippy stage of discovery and even then only for a brief period in the summer.
(19) The adage "do no harm" should be kept in mind in the counseling, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV-infected individuals.
(20) Baseball fans are familiar with the old adage “pitching wins championships”.
Cliche
Definition:
(n.) A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a cliche to suggest that success requires long-term planning, but in the case of investing in the support structures that can extend the domain of early intervention, this is most certainly true.
(2) High stakes is a terrible cliche, but this is about as high stakes as diplomacy gets.
(3) Yet life in reality looks less rosy than these cliches suggest.
(4) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
(5) Looking at the current proposals, and mounting concerns about them, I'm rather reminded of cliched advice always thrown at parents with worries about a child: if you suspect something isn't right, then it is no good assuming that everything will somehow turn out OK – you must act, and fast.
(6) Hannah Jane Parkinson, community Dancing with the drag queens of NYC Downlow It's become a bit of cliche to say this, but Thursday really is the best day of the festival: there wasn't any mud at that stage this year; the site's not yet at maximum occupancy; and of course there's no live music – so no pressure to flog yourself to a distant stage to see a band you once half-promised yourself you ought to see.
(7) I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.
(8) It incants the motto of the Bill Shankly school of cliche: that football is not a matter of life and death, it is far more important.
(9) "The models slowly evolved from girl-next-door types towards the visual cliches of the soft porn industry," they write.
(10) Hammond and May’s new acronym is intended to signal a break from the previous government, but is also an acknowledgement that political cliches can quickly become tired and counterproductive.
(11) Paradoxically, she no longer needed to prove that she was tough enough for the job; it was becoming a cliche ... to say that she was 'the best man among them'.
(12) Take that cosy, cliched history of black Britain that begins with the Pathe newsreel of Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury.
(13) The wrecked "candy ravers" and rampaging fratboys of EDM cliche are barely present – aside from more visible breasts and muscles, it is close to any European festival audience out for a good time, perhaps even a bit savvier.
(14) As she matured she also developed into an astute and sensitive dance actor; her portrayal of characters such as Manon or Natalia Petrovna in A Month in the Country were refreshingly free of ballet cliche.
(15) World Cup fashion, Brazil-cliche-style: hot pants, thigh-high boots and sequinned bikini tops.
(16) Ruth Rendell: In quotes Read more The cliched view of Rendell is that she suddenly changed her style when, in the 1980s, she started writing as Barbara Vine, but the truth is that from the beginning, even in the Wexford tales, she concentrated more on character and psychology than old-fashioned police procedure.
(17) A kind of ironic pessimism – planning to fail – is a bit of a cliche in contemporary art.
(18) For me it’s much more important than just playing music in clubs and dancing – all these cliches – it’s much more than that.
(19) When Perry was four, she ran off with the milkman (this is why, he tells me, he has always hated cliches) and married him.
(20) Its sounds like a cliche – and a socially costly cliche at that – but the change most likely to end abuse is one that raises the pay and conditions status of those who care for the elderly to the same as that of nursery and primary school teachers.