A Dictionary of Cliches by Eric Partridge
A Dictionary of Cliches

Eric Partridge

A Dictionary of Cliches

Eric Partridge

272 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction reference challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definit...

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