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We Looked Deeply into the Trite: More Origins of Literary Cliches
We Looked Deeply into the Trite: More Origins of Literary Cliches
By George Dobbs
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.)

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Little Did We Know: The Origins of Literary 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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