As the mysteries of Christina's character are revealed, she is transformed from that familiar cliché, the softhearted hooker, into something more unusual but even less credible.

Or it may enrich familiar cliches.

The state's obsession with football is one of its most familiar cliches, but it still holds true.

Somewhere in Zack's sentence was a more familiar cliché, but Jack got the drift.

"Despite the familiar cliche, 'forgive and forget,' most of us find forgetting nearly impossible," says Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Hope College.

With his next breath he roughly reminds us of the context: "It's the music, the dancing, that saves all this from familiar romantic cliché.

Yet the show's sharp sense of humor, honest emotions, and polished production values prove that working with familiar clichés doesn't have to result in a clichéd product.

The familiar cliché about Wall Street is that it's only concerned about the latest quarter.

A handful of familiar cliches have made the rounds to explain this - it's about ease of use, it's about Apple's great sense of design.

In Corpus Christi , the disciple characters are thinly sketched versions of familiar clichés: the taciturn hairdresser, the buff male hustler, the yuppie lawyer.