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We Looked Deeply into the Trite: More Origins of Literary Cliches

July 14, 2014

He looked deeply into her eyes, and she said, “You’re off the case.” Then everything went black. (Because it was all just a string of cliches.)

Little Did We Know: The Origins of Literary Cliches

By George Dobbs

June 24, 2014

Once upon a time, it was was a dark and stormy night, and little did we know where all of these goddamn cliches came from.

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