Possible Clues:

• Cliché in the making
• 'Dead men tell no tales,' e.g
• Saw
• Something obvious
• Pedant's conclusion is seen in odd statement of the obvious
• Platitude, self-evident truth
• Gore's abandoning philanthropic approach, that's obvious
• Unoriginal and obviously correct statement
• It¿s self-evident with rising, old city covered by bad mist
• It's rum, anyway — it's obvious