"Cliché" came to mean such a ready-made phrase.

You can also blast "family alerts" to the screens of all of your family's phones at once; a menu offers ready-made phrases like "Running late.

Imitation, repetition and plugging in ready-made phrases are, after all, the methods by which humans learn speech.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.

Euphemism, vagueness or any kind of lazy, unthinking use of ready-made phrases covers up meaning, often brutal political truths.

A phrase book is a collection of ready-made phrases, usually for a foreign language along with a translation, indexed and often in the form of questions and answers.

Every newspaper has ready-made phrases to explain such manifestations away.

You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in.

But there were plenty of ready-made phrases around.

Examining ready-made phrases referring to women, or in some cases men, Mills cites, for example, some familiar proverbs.