Your call for "a fresh and urgent look at the whole subject of school violence and gun control" is an old bromide sure to stir emotions, not to foster progress.

I think my boss subscribes to the old bromide that you don't tear down a wall unless you are sure why it was put up.

There's an old bromide in science that the answer is almost always staring you right in the face.

Russia seems to be the exception to Benjamin Franklin's old bromide that nothing is certain but death and taxes; in Russia, only death is certain.

But over time, he said, many investors became accustomed to it, "and you started to hear the old bromide that this time it's different."

IF Benjamin Franklin were around today, he might add something to his old bromide that nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Trouble was, those old bromides always sounded truer than they were.

Populism may sound like an old bromide in politics, but Mr. Kusnet says it's still the way to go.

I learned that there is truth to the old bromide "Watch what you eat."