Librarian IAC Member Offline I may be blonde but... Posts: 657 Location: Washington (not DC) TV Tropes Sep 12th, 2011 at 1:26pm Print Post Television Tropes and Idioms The difference between trope and cliche: Quote: 'Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting.' If you only have one solution to a problem - you're not trying. IP Logged