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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... sixteenth - century writers wrote of the black sheep as a dangerous ( " perilous " ) animal , among them John Lyly . In the eighteenth century , however , the application to the human deviant became common . Sir Walter Scott wrote ...
... sixteenth - century writers wrote of the black sheep as a dangerous ( " perilous " ) animal , among them John Lyly . In the eighteenth century , however , the application to the human deviant became common . Sir Walter Scott wrote ...
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... century , although words to that effect were cited by Erasmus in his Adagia of the sixteenth century ( " Nor try to put courteous con- versation into the minds of impudent men , for speech is the food of thought " ) . The modern cliché ...
... century , although words to that effect were cited by Erasmus in his Adagia of the sixteenth century ( " Nor try to put courteous con- versation into the minds of impudent men , for speech is the food of thought " ) . The modern cliché ...
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... sixteenth century denoted the soldiers who could most accurately shoot the enemy , according to William Safire . However , the word " shot " also had meant an attempt or a try from the mid - eighteenth century on , casting some doubt on ...
... sixteenth century denoted the soldiers who could most accurately shoot the enemy , according to William Safire . However , the word " shot " also had meant an attempt or a try from the mid - eighteenth century on , casting some doubt on ...
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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