stock phrase

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Noun

stock phrase (plural stock phrases)

  1. (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.
  2. A cliché.

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