“When do idioms devolve into clichés?” Tom Connelly writes. Tom’s question is an interesting one. His verb choice hints at one of the main differences between the two: Idioms are generally thought of ...

There’s nothing reporters love more than half-answered questions. There were plenty of those to go around at The Associated Press Legislative Preview on Thursday (Jan. 7). For two hours, Washington ...

Any writing expert will tell you: If you want to get your message across, avoid clichés. The problem is, no one seems to know what, exactly, a cliché is. Is it an overused sentence like “The grass is ...

Sound familiar? Most industries are filled with countless founding myths and origin stories that have become the basis for some of the world’s most beloved brands. But as these stories have proved ...

Question: We are doing over our beach place and trying to avoid the usual cliches: the blue and white color scheme, starfish, wicker, etc. The trouble is, we can't think of another style that really ...

The path of the DJ-monikered musician who turns from static-laden samples toward live instrumentation is well trodden, but if we’re to believe the buzzing zeitgeist—that hip-hop is in its last throes ...

Vomiting out a banal and compulsory introduction that doesn’t really add any value to the article is probably a branding (kind of) cliché in itself. We all know what branding is, so let’s skip the ...

This year's ExxonMobil Summer Chills production at the Alley Theatre will be Sherlock Holmes and the Crucifer of Blood, allowing company actor Todd Waite to once again play the master detective in all ...