Have you ever heard, read or witnessed something that was painfully trite, irritatingly cliche or just plain obvious and overused? Was it said, written or done with a befuddling sense of innovation and originality when it is commonly thought of as hackneyed and worn out? If it made you wince, cringe or exhale in frustration, then this is the book for you.

"Tastes like Chicken: 101 Things We Should Never Say or Do Again," is a list of the most annoying and maddening examples of these platitudes, (the unoriginal, expressed enthusiastically as original).

Author Bryson Lang has rounded...