Is there a term for someone who uses idioms (e.g. right off the bat, lowest hanging fruit, living under a rock) excessively (but correctly)?
To clarify the confusion in the comments: I'm referring to someone who in addition to speaking idiomatically (ie like native speakers do), uses idioms far more often than the average native speaker does.
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The examples you give are not just idioms but clichés, i.e., stale and thus moribund metaphors. One who utters them to excess is a cliché-monger. The term is not a common one but is listed in the OED, with two examples from 1947 & 1962, though without its own explicit definition.