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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained Paperback - 1999
by Betty Kirkpatrick; E. M. Kirkpatrick
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An editor of "Roget's Thesaurus" has collected more than 1,500 of the world's favorite cliches, categorizing them according to origin and most common meaning.
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Cliches: the bad guys of the English language, overused, abused, and sniffed at by school teachers? Or do they receive bad press? Are they actually an irreplaceable form of linguistic shorthand? Betty Kirkpatrick, an editor of Roget's Thesaurus, has exhaustively researched and compiled a list of our most common phrases, presented alphabetically. She provides the origin of each cliche, a humorous example of its use, and explores how a phrase becomes a cliche, when we use them, and why. This dictionary is a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language.
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- Title Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained
- Author Betty Kirkpatrick; E. M. Kirkpatrick
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martins Press-3PL, New York
- Publication date 1999-01-15
- ISBN 9780312198442 / 0312198442
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
- Category Reference
- Library of Congress subjects Cliches, English language - Terms and phrases
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98054884
- Dewey Decimal Code 423.1
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