Is the cliche that cliches are cliches because they're true true?

'The reason it's a cliche is because it's true' -- Lloyd Cole, 'A Long Way Down' (1990)

A cliche doesn't even have to have a truth value, man

shit man I'm completely out of my depth here

an apple a day keeps the doctor away
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Clich-GAY, morelike

clichy,gael more like

don't count your chickens before they're hatched `
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http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:s9ox2D7zCWu0mM:http://www.arsenalpies.tv/Clichy.JPG haste makes waste

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:rtrHnAbE972ZPM:http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00361/clichy_280x390_361230a.jpg nothing ventured, nothing gained

dog bites man isn't news, man bites dog is
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For this thread to make sense Arsenal need to sign Greece defender Nikos Aphorism

You know what?

"Just because it rhymes
doesn't make it true."
M. Grout 2007

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:6UviR1kZp5H0hM:http://www.arsenal.com/Images/c/clichy_0607europe1.jpg If it's too good to be true then it usually is

no smoke without van persie

there's no place like home http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Oi1Ayf-dl7QTzM:http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00458/clichy_280x390_458157a.jpg

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:eHP7RaqLPdcVaM:http://www.arsenal.com/Images/c/clichy21112007.jpg i love you with all my heart

money is the root of all evil http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:xSTWl3968kmfgM:http://img.skysports.com/07/12/218x298/Gael_Clichy_605329.jpg

Most cliches are not in the form of complete statements, but rather exist as verbal tics, such as "war-torn Iraq" or "beleaguered president" or "the size of a package of cigarettes".

Such cliches might be true enough, as they are applied, but they also tend to take on a life of their own that no longer requires validation by reality. It is a world in which promising young basketball players are always "the next Michael Jordan", which turns out never to be true.

a friend is dating a french woman. i met her for the first time recently at a bbq thing, and only an hour had passed by before she spat out the word "bourgeois" while expressing contempt for something or other

You should've said "gesundheit."

ahahah