A Dictionary of Cliches
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case.
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A Dictionary of Cliches
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case.
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A Dictionary of Cliches

A Dictionary of Cliches

by Eric Partridge
A Dictionary of Cliches

A Dictionary of Cliches

by Eric Partridge

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This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781138159204
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 01/31/2017
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE 5TH EDITION, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, A DICTIONARY OF CLICHÉS
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