4. (Music, other) music a part of the action of a clavichord consisting of a small piece of metal that strikes the string to produce a note. 5. on a tangent at a tangent on a completely different or divergent course, esp of thought: to go off at a tangent.
Synonyms: clichÃ©, bromide, platitude, truism. These nouns denote an expression or idea that has lost its originality or force through overuse: a short story weakened by clichÃ©s; the bromide that we are what we eat; a eulogy full of platitudes; a once-original thought that is now a truism.
You may hear or see this common English idiom used in a number of ways, and some people regard it as a cliche clichÃ© which should be avoided because it is so frequently. Used in the sense âof at a loss for,â words this idiom usually means that someone could not come up with an adequate verbal response to a comment or. event