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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Overview

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: 9781134963935
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/02/2003
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 751 KB

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Eric Partridge

Table of Contents

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