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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
[...]Some people would say to use clichés ironically, but reflexive irony can be its own kind of cliché (and surprisingly mindless as well).
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I think this is a good point. What is cliché does change over time. A phrase is at first seen as clever, it gets widely adopted and eventually seen as cliché, and then later may move into the language or go out of fashion so that it becomes something that gives a text a certain retrospective style.