Indeed, a historically popular cliché referring to the city was that it is for "the newly wed and nearly dead".

(The latter phrase has become a popular cliché in Russian culture hinting at happy or militant ignorance.)

In more complacent times, offering one's life for one's country has been a patriotic cliché, more popular among politicians than among mothers.

(say, 10,000 hours of practice ... a popular cliche but true).

However, like Lucas and Haley, he eventually became embroiled in the world of the popular cliche.

A popular cliché about finding a man in Alaska is, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."

A popular cliché about breaking up with a woman in Alaska is, "You don't lose your girl, you lose your turn."

The genre also, like many Hollywood movies, uses popular clichés to appeal to a broader audience.

The environment you postulate is a popular cliché; it actually antedates in most particulars the advent of the giant saurians by several hundred million years.

If these were truly self-generated opinions rather than popular clichés, the phraseology would not be so mind-numbingly similar.