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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... wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise ( 1920 ) . come clean , to . To tell the whole truth , to confess . A slangy Ameri- canism dating from the early twentieth century , it most often was found in crime novels and ...
... wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in This Side of Paradise ( 1920 ) . come clean , to . To tell the whole truth , to confess . A slangy Ameri- canism dating from the early twentieth century , it most often was found in crime novels and ...
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... wrote , " You grey towers that still rise up as if to lord it over air " ( Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death ) . His contemporary across the Atlantic , Washington Irving , wrote ( Rip Van Winkle , 1820 ) , “ The Kaatskill Mountains ...
... wrote , " You grey towers that still rise up as if to lord it over air " ( Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death ) . His contemporary across the Atlantic , Washington Irving , wrote ( Rip Van Winkle , 1820 ) , “ The Kaatskill Mountains ...
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... wrote historian James Bryce ( The American Commonwealth , 1888 ) . turn someone's head , to . To influence someone's mind - set , particu- larly so as to make him / her conceited . Seneca had the idea ( and his translator the phrase ) ...
... wrote historian James Bryce ( The American Commonwealth , 1888 ) . turn someone's head , to . To influence someone's mind - set , particu- larly so as to make him / her conceited . Seneca had the idea ( and his translator the phrase ) ...
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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