stock phrase
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English
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Noun
[edit]stock phrase (plural stock phrases)
- (idiomatic) A phrase frequently or habitually used by a person or group, and thus associated with them.
- Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.
- A cliché.