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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained
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Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained Paperback - 2000

by Kirkpatrick, Betty

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An editor of "Roget's Thesaurus" has collected more than 1,500 of the world's favorite cliches, categorizing them according to origin and most common meaning.

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  • Title Cliches: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained
  • Author Kirkpatrick, Betty
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, New York
  • Date 2000-09-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q18A-03798
  • ISBN 9780312198442 / 0312198442
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Cliches, English language - Terms and phrases
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98054884
  • Dewey Decimal Code 423.1

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Cliches: the bad guys of the English language, overused, abused, and sniffed at by school teachers? Or do they receive bad press? Are they actually an irreplaceable form of linguistic shorthand? Betty Kirkpatrick, an editor of Roget's Thesaurus, has exhaustively researched and compiled a list of our most common phrases, presented alphabetically. She provides the origin of each cliche, a humorous example of its use, and explores how a phrase becomes a cliche, when we use them, and why. This dictionary is a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language.

About the author

Betty Kirkpatrick is a writer and lexicographer. Editor of both the Bloomsbury Thesaurus and Roget's Thesaurus, she was formerly editor of the Chambers Twentieth-Century Dictionary. She lives in Scotland.

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