as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
an op-ed piece that's offers nothing but warmed-over chestnuts for solving the city's financial woes
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Recent Examples of chestnut
Don’t expect chestnuts roasting on open fires or sleigh bells ringing in the snow.
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
With twinkling lights, festive music, and the scent of roasted chestnuts in the air, these markets promise an enchanting experience for all who visit.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Like the aroma of roasted American chestnuts, a pipedream because a fungal blight rendered the trees extinct.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
Indigenous peoples would have been well-equipped to cultivate peaches from experience with other tree crops such as pawpaws and chestnuts, Holland-Lulewicz says.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2024
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Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
With twinkling lights, festive music, and the scent of roasted chestnuts in the air, these markets promise an enchanting experience for all who visit.
—Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Like the aroma of roasted American chestnuts, a pipedream because a fungal blight rendered the trees extinct.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
Indigenous peoples would have been well-equipped to cultivate peaches from experience with other tree crops such as pawpaws and chestnuts, Holland-Lulewicz says.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chestnut
Noun
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But my money’s on Baker, one of the world’s finest filmmakers who tells stories about characters Hollywood so often turns into cliches and leaves behind.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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All the cliches about how hard he’s worked in the weight room and on the football field … his work in the classroom is even more impressive, if not equally impressive.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The two-dimensional characters communicate in bromides; Lena’s fellow privates, who suffer from the laziest defining characteristics (coarse Southern gal, proper preacher’s daughter, New Yorker), are the worst offenders.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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In place of triumph-of-the-human-spirit bromides, though, what the book delivers is its own kind of cinema, harsh and true.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2024
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The German proverb, roughly translated into English, means: Steady dripping caves the stone.—
Gabby Herzig,
The Athletic,
2 Jan. 2025
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But remember, where there’s fire, there’s smoke, which may be a reversal of the standard proverb but is highly relevant here.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Donkey provided comic relief, pathos and friendship to Shrek, with the film praised for its humorous twist on fairy-tale tropes.—
Aaron Couch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb. 2025
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Despite the slowdown of viral fashion cores and aesthetics, the New York runway was home to several distinct fashion tropes.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
20 Feb. 2025
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This truism sits at the very heart of Republicans' fight over a grand budget deal.—
Axios,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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There are certain truisms that are hard to resist when talking about an album like Debí Debí Tirar Más Fotos, Bad Bunny’s sixth.—
Joan Escutia,
Vogue,
10 Jan. 2025
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The members simply rounded up the usual suspects of platitudes.—
Vincent Turley,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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And Romero and his curatorial team didn’t really engage with Abramovic beyond cursory platitudes.—
Kim Córdova,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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If Jude’s previous two fiction films were Molotov cocktails of indignation, his latest secretes a kind of scentless poison that gets at the banality with which social injustices are processed and rationalized.—
Beatrice Loayza,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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The scene that follows—an intense grief followed by a quick return to the dull and depraved routine of trying to score their next hit—captures both the extremism and the banality of addiction and homelessness.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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This saying certainly comes into play plenty when referees spot the ball either past or before the first down marker.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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That’s because in this new age of on-again, off-again tariffs, there’s no saying when your package will be delivered — if at all.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Chestnut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chestnut. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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