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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... teenth century . See also LIKE THE WIND ; LIKE GREASED LIGHTNING . quick on the draw / trigger . Fast to act or react . The term comes from the gunslingers of the American West and was transferred to other kinds of quick reaction in the ...
... teenth century . See also LIKE THE WIND ; LIKE GREASED LIGHTNING . quick on the draw / trigger . Fast to act or react . The term comes from the gunslingers of the American West and was transferred to other kinds of quick reaction in the ...
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... teenth century it had been transferred to experienced officers , such as Confederate General James Longstreet , who was nicknamed the War Horse , as well as to veterans of political and other struggles . Using the second meaning , in ...
... teenth century it had been transferred to experienced officers , such as Confederate General James Longstreet , who was nicknamed the War Horse , as well as to veterans of political and other struggles . Using the second meaning , in ...
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... teenth- and nineteenth - century writers rang changes on it , mainly by increasing the second " you " to a large number . Samuel Johnson had " twenty cannot make him drink " ( 1763 ) ; Anthony Trollope made it " a thousand " ( 1857 ) ...
... teenth- and nineteenth - century writers rang changes on it , mainly by increasing the second " you " to a large number . Samuel Johnson had " twenty cannot make him drink " ( 1763 ) ; Anthony Trollope made it " a thousand " ( 1857 ) ...
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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