A Dictionary of Cliches

by Eric Partridge

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:	9780415065559
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/1978
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	4.81(w) x 7.31(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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