• As different as night and day, e.g.
• Back to the salt mines, for one
• Banality
• Bit of predictable prose
• Bromide
• Chestnut
• Hackneyed
• Hot as a pistol, say
• It's overused
• It's trite and true
• Old saw
• Overused expression
• Overused idea
• Overused phrase
• Overworked phrase
• Platitude
• Saw
• Screenwriter's no-no
• Stale expression
• Stale saying
• Think outside the box, for instance
• Tired phrase
• Trite expression
• Well-worn phrase
• When all is said and done, e.g.
• Writer's no-no
• You've heard it before
• A trite or obvious remark