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According to an online survey, cliches like "at the end of the day", "24/7" and "literally" are among the most reviled. Here are 20 more that irk Magazine readers.
Councils are being discouraged from littering their bumf with cliches and jargon. But where did this lingo come from?
Man Utd beat Blackburn to go top on a busy day of Premier League and FA Cup action.
Playwright Oscar Wilde is named Britain's wittiest person in a poll of 3,000 people.
An exhibition of Islamic objects aims to reveal the links between East and West and break stereotypes about the faith.
Model Jodie Kidd is the BBC's fashion expert at Royal Ascot
Do the cliches about the fortes and failings of men and women stand up to scientific scrutiny?
As part of our feature on novel-writing we bring you an excerpt from the unpublished novel Snowflakes in Summer.
"Cliches aside, this is the most competitive Super League yet"
With their abbreviated dialect - WLTM, GSOH, SWF - and, rather cliched appeals, personal ads these days can appear anything but personal. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Games are often derided by critics as mindless fun but new 'brain' games are turning the cliché on its head.
For those who see hip hop culture simply as guns, girls and gold, Andre Benjamin is a revelation.
Ad Breakdown looks at some of the irritating assumptions adverts seem to make.
Unloved Luton was recently voted 'Britain's crappiest town'. So when Sarfraz Manzoor made a film about his home town, he wanted to avoid the cliches.
"At the end of the day" is found to be the most irritating phrase in the English language by the Plain English Campaign.
Why, when Europe is supposed to be moving closer together, do we still hear unkind stereotypes of each other?
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Once derided as a middle-class cliche, the Aga oven brand is being reinvented - offering a note of cheer for Britain's battered manufacturers.
Send us your review of this year's big budget summer movie, Pearl Harbor.
"Dot.com" is the web's cliché of the moment. Is it going to last the course, or like the companies it describes, is the bubble about to burst?
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