Bromide (language)

As a platitude or truism is called a truism or a generally known information. The term is particularly used when should be expressed that an argument advanced as interesting knowledge basically has no special value.

The term is a reference to the prevalence of rushes ( grasses ) and their use as floor covering ( bedding) in the dwellings of the commoners people to modern times.

A similar parable can already be found in ancient Greek, to which there was even an origin tale: King Midas had forbidden his barber to redistribute that he had grown donkey ears, which he hid under his hair. But the barber could not keep the secret and called it into a hole. The rushes but that grew there, whispering on ( an observation of the noise fluttering rushes ) until all the rushes were talking about and all the world knew it - it was the " truism " has become.