"There's more than a little truth in these old cliches. "
There was still a job to do, indeed, "a world to win," as in the old cliche.
"A perfect example of the old cliche, a face only a mother could love."
"I know it is an old cliche but we can't get too far ahead of ourselves."
"You have the old cliches when somebody young passes away," he said.
Or to use the old cliche, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
Information is my business, if you will forgive an old cliche.
But as the old cliché goes, you can't judge a book by its cover.
It was like the old cliché of being turned to stone.
That's what it had come down to, the old cliché.