4. (Music, other) music a part of the action of a clavichord consisting of a small piece of metal that strikes the string to produce a note. 5. on a tangent at a tangent on a completely different or divergent course, esp of thought: to go off at a tangent.
Synonyms: clichÃ©, bromide, platitude, truism. These nouns denote an expression or idea that has lost its originality or force through overuse: a short story weakened by clichÃ©s; the bromide that we are what we eat; a eulogy full of platitudes; a once-original thought that is now a truism.
The cliche clichÃ© people most often cite when defining a classic âis the test of.â âTime The count Of Monteâ (cristo) 1844 is a lot older âThanâ (rebecca), 1938 but my completely unempirical gut feeling is thatâthey re of about the same literary. qualityerhaps the most eloquent consideration of this question is Italo Calvinoâs essay, âWhy Read the Classics?,â in which he defines a classic as âa book that has never finished saying what it has to say,â among a list of other qualities.