any expression [...] that is so overused as to lose impact and which is used instead of thinking creatively of a new phrase

Pity the poor soul who doesn't realize his frisson is (another sod's) cliché. By this definition, most of our English common vocabulary is très cliché and eschew-worthy. Perchance we can all start using Xhosa or Friulian lemmata for quotidian words like the and be.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.