4276282
9780710000491
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, venerability in every case.Partridge, Eric is the author of 'Dictionary of Cliches - Eric Partridge - Paperback - 5th ed' with ISBN 9780710000491 and ISBN 0710000499.
[read more]