If you want to avoid using terms that have been beaten to death with overuse, Cliché Finder is the tool to use. It keeps track of repetitive and overused words or phrases.

We all know to avoid clichés in writing. But what if something sounds familiar, and you’re not sure if it’s been used before? Type it into this search engine, which indexes more than 3,000 clichés.
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