Hackneyed Quotes
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I never take any notice of reviews - unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.
Robert Mitchum
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The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.
John Gross
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It`s a story you`ve never heard before, which is saying something because most plots are so hackneyed now. It`s unlike anything you`ve ever seen.
Anthony Spencer
