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Eric Partridge
Dictionary of Cliches [PDF ebook]

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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 clichés, venerability in every case.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 272 ● ISBN 9780203379967 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2289691 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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