thought-terminating cliché

English

Etymology

Popularised by the book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (1961).

Noun

thought-terminating cliché (plural thought-terminating clichés)

  1. A commonly used phrase or piece of folk wisdom used to quell cognitive dissonance.

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