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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... give it a bad reputation . This term comes from the proverb , " Give a dog an ill name and hang him , " quoted in James Kelly's collection of Scottish proverbs ( 1721 ) . It has been a cliché since about 1800 . give and take . To make ...
... give it a bad reputation . This term comes from the proverb , " Give a dog an ill name and hang him , " quoted in James Kelly's collection of Scottish proverbs ( 1721 ) . It has been a cliché since about 1800 . give and take . To make ...
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... give it her best shot " ) . give no quarter : see GRANT NO QUARTER give one's eyeteeth for , to . To yearn for ; to go to any lengths to obtain . The eyeteeth , the upper canines , have been so called since the sixteenth century ...
... give it her best shot " ) . give no quarter : see GRANT NO QUARTER give one's eyeteeth for , to . To yearn for ; to go to any lengths to obtain . The eyeteeth , the upper canines , have been so called since the sixteenth century ...
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... give a bad name to , 143 give a clean bill of health , 60 give and take , 143 give an inch and they'll take a mile , 143 give a piece of one's mind : see piece of one's ... give a wide berth to , 143 give his head to , 143 give it one's ...
... give a bad name to , 143 give a clean bill of health , 60 give and take , 143 give an inch and they'll take a mile , 143 give a piece of one's mind : see piece of one's ... give a wide berth to , 143 give his head to , 143 give it one's ...
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