cliché |ˈkliːʃeɪ| (also cliche)
noun

1 a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought : the old cliché “one man’s meat is another man’s poison.”

• a very predictable or unoriginal thing or person : each building is a mishmash of tired clichés.

2 Printing chiefly Brit. a stereotype or electrotype.

ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: French, past participle (used as a noun) of clicher ‘to stereotype.’