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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... earlier but more obscure sources . grin and bear it . Put up with adversity with good humor . This expres- sion orginated as grin and abide . It so appears in Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia ( 1794 ) , " We have a proverb where no help could ...
... earlier but more obscure sources . grin and bear it . Put up with adversity with good humor . This expres- sion orginated as grin and abide . It so appears in Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia ( 1794 ) , " We have a proverb where no help could ...
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... earlier . It appears in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur : " Ye shalle have bothe your handes ful of me . " have one's wits about one , to . To be wide awake and alert . " Wits " in the plural has long meant keen mental faculties . Ben ...
... earlier . It appears in Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur : " Ye shalle have bothe your handes ful of me . " have one's wits about one , to . To be wide awake and alert . " Wits " in the plural has long meant keen mental faculties . Ben ...
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... earlier , probably about 1910 . you could have heard ( hear ) a pin drop . A sudden silence . This hyperbole dates from the early nineteenth century , when , presumably , a pin made no more noise than today . " You might have heard a ...
... earlier , probably about 1910 . you could have heard ( hear ) a pin drop . A sudden silence . This hyperbole dates from the early nineteenth century , when , presumably , a pin made no more noise than today . " You might have heard a ...
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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