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| #3005280 in Books | 1978-01-17 | 1978-05-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.32 x.62 x4.84l,.57 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Cliches to leave out in the cold|By Paula Cappa Reviews|As writers, none of us want to tatter our work with cliches. But aren't these overused phrases the first things that come to mind? Too many irons in the fire. Heart of gold. Cut and run. Rags to riches. Pound of flesh. Who said 'pound of flesh' anyway? Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. 'Year in, year out' was first writte|.com |Clichés, the "coin(s) so battered by use as to be defaced," are anathema to Eric Partridge. He says, "their ubiquity is remarkable and rather frightening," and while he likens proverbs to expressions of wisdom, he says, clichés are instances
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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