This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case.

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This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics.

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PREFACE TO THE 5TH EDITION, PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, A DICTIONARY OF CLICHÉS

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ISBN
9780415065559
Publisert
1978-05-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
500 gr
Høyde
186 mm
Bredde
123 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

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