One of the underappreciated rules of good writing is, as one professor said, to "avoid clichés like the plague." Common phrases — usually similes or metaphors — are such an easy out, and can instantaneously turn a quality piece of work into hackneyed garbage. But some clichés go beyond a simple snippet or a sentence, and can lure an entire column (for example) into an attractive trap laced with ...
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This Week in ECAC Hockey: Nov. 27, 2008
