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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... writer cites a speech made by Congressman Willard D. Vandiver in 1899 ; another refers to a song , " I'm from Mis- souri ... writers who referred to " the Iliad in a nutshell , " among them Jonathan Swift and Thomas Carlyle . Later " the ...
... writer cites a speech made by Congressman Willard D. Vandiver in 1899 ; another refers to a song , " I'm from Mis- souri ... writers who referred to " the Iliad in a nutshell , " among them Jonathan Swift and Thomas Carlyle . Later " the ...
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... writers . The precise source of " lump " has been lost . One authority suggests it comes from a British dialect word ... writers . Another old expression , less often heard today , is on the wings of the wind , which appears twice in the ...
... writers . The precise source of " lump " has been lost . One authority suggests it comes from a British dialect word ... writers . Another old expression , less often heard today , is on the wings of the wind , which appears twice in the ...
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... writers who used it . An unknown fifteenth - century writer had it , " Now ... Me is lefte But skyn and boon " ( Hymns to the Virgin and Child , c.1430 ) . skin of one's teeth : see BY THE SKIN OF ONE'S TEETH sky's the limit , the . As ...
... writers who used it . An unknown fifteenth - century writer had it , " Now ... Me is lefte But skyn and boon " ( Hymns to the Virgin and Child , c.1430 ) . skin of one's teeth : see BY THE SKIN OF ONE'S TEETH sky's the limit , the . As ...
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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