Clichés, Real Damage: The dark side of our verbal tics, unsolicited emotional manuals

Clichés, Real Damage The dark side of our verbal tics
After revisiting proverbs with critical (and self-ironic) flair in Whoever Doesn't Die Gets to Reread It, this third volume takes it a step further: it goes after clichés. The phrases that look like proverbs but without the excuse of folk wisdom.
If a proverb is a generational dictum carved in tradition, a cliché is sneakier. It slips into conversation unnoticed, gives a punchy tone even when there's no content. "Just saying," "It's one of those things," "Worse is better,"... Convenient expressions, overused, and often repeated more out of habit than meaning.
This book targets them all. It spots them, dissects them, pokes fun at them. And it reveals how, behind so many words, there are often thoughts left permanently on pause.
A linguistic self-defense manual, for anyone who wants to stop saying things just because "that's what people say."