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Clichés
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Pages: 150
Authors: Nigel Fountain
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-06 - Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

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Entertaining and informative, this collection of clichés really is the best thing since sliced bread ...
Talking in Clichés
Language: en
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Authors: Stella Bullo
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered clichés as a hackneyed, tired, lazy, unthinking and uninspiring form o
Death Sentences
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Don Watson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-04 - Publisher: Gotham

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From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--an
Catch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-17 - Publisher: McFarland

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Catch phrases such as "shop till you drop," cliches like "life begins at forty" and idioms such as "talk the hind leg off a donkey" have long enriched the Engli
It's Been Said Before
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Orin Hargraves
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In this book, Orin Hargraves provides a concise and lively guide to the most abused phrases in the English language today.