abstraction
banality
bromide
chestnut
cliche
cliché
commonplace
commonplace expression
corn
familiar tune
general idea
generalization
generalized proposition
glittering generality
hackneyed expression
hackneyed saying
inanity
insipidity
lieu commun
locus communis
mawkishness
old joke
old saw
old song
old story
prosaicism
prosaism
prose
reiteration
retold story
rubber stamp
saying
sentimentality
shibboleth
stereotyped saying
sweeping statement
tag
tired cliche
trite saying
triteness
triticism
truism
twice-told tale
vapidity
comment
input
remark
allusion
aphorism
banter
declamation
doggerel
dullness
eccentricity
eloquence
exaggerations
fervour
formality
humbug
maxim
metaphor
nonsense
optimism
phraseology
pleasantry
precept
rhetoric
subterfuge
twaddle
verbiage