hackneyed expression



abstraction, bromide, commonplace, generalization, platitude, truism ,









   publications - bibliography, cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, literature, lore, material ,

   well-educated - knowledgeable, learned, lettered, smart, well-grounded, well-read, well-versed ,

   expanding - crescendoing, crescent, enlarging, growing, increasing, incremental, intensifying, lengthening, multiplying, on the increase, proliferating, snowballing, spreading, swelling, tightening,

   virgin forest - afforestation, arboretum, boon docks, bush, chase, forest, forestry, hanger, jungle, park, rain forest, scrub, timber, wood, woodland,

   book publishing - communications, fourth estate, journalism, press, publishing ,

   dead end - bar, barrier, blank, blank wall, blind, blind alley, blind gut, blind-alley, block, blockade, blockage, bottleneck, box, caecal, caecum,

   wind-dried - baked, dehydrated, dried, evaporated, mummified, parched, scorched, sear, seared, sere, shrivelled, sun-baked, withered, wizened ,

   not butt in - leave alone, let alone, let be ,

   make court to - court, fawn upon, handshake, make up to, play up to, run after, shine up to, suck up to ,

   outguessing - circumvention, evasion, frustration, run around, slip, thwarting ,