Have a Nice Day--no Problem!: A Dictionary of ClichésDutton, 1992 - Всего страниц: 454 Wake up and smell the coffee, language lovers! Here's the newest, biggest, most informative collection available of the most reviled of verbal formulas: the cliche. Most cliches started life as phrases so picturesque and quotable that they were quoted, over and over and over. With 3,000 cliches, this popular reference is the very "last word" on the subject. |
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... analogous French idiom , " I throw [ or give ] my tongue to the cat , " meaning " I give up ; I have nothing to say . " cat on a hot tin roof , like a . Skittish , nervous , ill at ease . A similar analogy- " like a cat on a hot bake ...
... analogous French idiom , " I throw [ or give ] my tongue to the cat , " meaning " I give up ; I have nothing to say . " cat on a hot tin roof , like a . Skittish , nervous , ill at ease . A similar analogy- " like a cat on a hot bake ...
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... analogy presum- ably is to setting one or both feet in a fixed position , representing a firm stand . Although versions of this term ( usually with set one's foot down ) exist from the sixteenth century on , it became current only in ...
... analogy presum- ably is to setting one or both feet in a fixed position , representing a firm stand . Although versions of this term ( usually with set one's foot down ) exist from the sixteenth century on , it became current only in ...
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... analogy is to the skin of the drumhead , which is tightly stretched so that when it is struck the drum sounds as it should . This term was transferred in the nineteenth century to anything stretched taut ; Thomas Hughes ( Tom Brown's ...
... analogy is to the skin of the drumhead , which is tightly stretched so that when it is struck the drum sounds as it should . This term was transferred in the nineteenth century to anything stretched taut ; Thomas Hughes ( Tom Brown's ...
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American analogy ancient Anthony Trollope appeared in John appeared in print became a cliché Bible Charles Dickens Chaucer cliché current cliché describe Dickens early nineteenth century early twentieth century eighteenth century English Eric Partridge expression appeared expression comes expression dates figuratively French George Bernard Shaw Greek heart Henry horse idea James John Lyly John Ray's Jonathan Swift late nineteenth century later literally locution meaning meant metaphor mid-nineteenth century mid-twentieth century nineteenth century nose numerous obsolescent older oneself P. G. Wodehouse person phrase play poem popular presumably proverb collection refers Roman saying seventeenth century Shakespeare simile Sir Walter Scott sixteenth century slang someone someone's survived teenth century term alludes term appears term began term comes term dates term originated term was transferred thing Thomas tion translation turn tury W. S. Gilbert William William Thackeray word writers wrote