A Dictionary of Cliches by Eric Partridge

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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 definitions, sources, and indications of the cliches,... read more

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Verdunoy
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Books › Reference › Encyclopedias › Art
Books › Reference › Words & Language › Reference
Books › Reference › Dictionaries & Thesauruses › Cliches
Books › Reference › Writing
Books › Reference › Foreign Languages
Books › Reference › Quotations

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