A Dictionary of Cliches
By Eric Partridge
Published May 10th 1978 by Routledge – 272 pages
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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.
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Name: A Dictionary of Cliches (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: By Eric Partridge. 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,...
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