Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

Questions for discussion: 
1.
What is set expression? 
2.
What is typical set expression? 
3.
Indicate the distinction between set expressions and free and semi-fixed 
combinations? 
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Cliché
The first type of set expressions is the cliché. 
A cliché
is generally defined as an 
expression that has become hackneyed, trite. It has lost its precise meaning by 
constant reiteration; in other words it has become stereotyped [5]. It has lost its 
freshness, the aesthetic generating power it once had. There is always a contradiction 
between what is aimed at and what is actually attained. There are some examples of 
clichés: 
Rosy dreams of youth, astronomical figures, to break the ice, the irony of fate, 
etc.

Most of the widely recognized word combinations which have been adopted by 
the language are unjustly classified as clichés. Debates of this kind proceed from a 
wrong notion that the term cliché is used to denote all stable word combinations, 
whereas it coined to denote word combinations which have long lost their novelty and 
became trite, but which are used as if they were fresh and original and so have 
become irritating to people who are sensitive to the languages they hear and read.
According to American scholar R.Altic, if one word inevitably invites another, 
if you read half of the sentence and know the certainly what the other half is, you have 
clichés. Some scientists think that everything that is predictable is a cliché. This 
opinion is wrong. The set expressions of a language are indispensable from its 
vocabulary and we cannot label them as cliché[13]. In each case we must know the 
aim, the situation in which the phrase was used. Then we shall know whether it is a 
cliché or not. Writers skillfully use the stock of such expressions. 
In most cases set expressions are based on the use metaphor, metonymy, 
hyperbole, simile, periphrasis, etc.