Historical clue formulations

• Tired expression — 2026-04-25
• Hackneyed — 2025-03-26
• Like a kid in a candy store, e.g. — 2018-10-05
• You've heard it many times before — 2016-07-14
• Many a predictable plot — 2013-11-29
• Overused expression — 2011-08-16
• Chestnut — 2010-04-23
• As different as night and day, e.g. — 2009-11-07
• Saw — 2006-05-12
• Hot as a pistol, say — 2003-03-20
• You've heard it before — 2000-06-04
• Bromide — 2000-01-23
• Writer's no-no — 1999-09-23