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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... translation ( 1870 ) of Homer's Iliad ( " his fellow warriors . . . fall round him to the earth and bite the dust " ) and it also is found in translations of Vergil's Aeneid . bite the hand that feeds you , to . To show ingratitude ; to ...
... translation ( 1870 ) of Homer's Iliad ( " his fellow warriors . . . fall round him to the earth and bite the dust " ) and it also is found in translations of Vergil's Aeneid . bite the hand that feeds you , to . To show ingratitude ; to ...
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... translation of Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods ( c.170 A.D. ) , cited by Erasmus in Adagia . By the sixteenth century it had been transferred to human beings . Arthur Golding's translation of Calvin's writings ( 1583 ) has it as , " Men ...
... translation of Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods ( c.170 A.D. ) , cited by Erasmus in Adagia . By the sixteenth century it had been transferred to human beings . Arthur Golding's translation of Calvin's writings ( 1583 ) has it as , " Men ...
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... translation of Gil Blas ( 1809 ) . The situation has not changed since Malkin's day , and the cliché is also very much alive . • under one's wing , to be / take someone . To be protected or to protect someone . The analogy here is to a ...
... translation of Gil Blas ( 1809 ) . The situation has not changed since Malkin's day , and the cliché is also very much alive . • under one's wing , to be / take someone . To be protected or to protect someone . The analogy here is to 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