Contains nearly 1000 cliches, including their possible origins and usage.
Author: Nigel Rees
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 0304349623
Category: Clichés
Page: 288
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Sick and tired of cliches? Uncover all kinds of fun facts about how clichQs came to be. Many of these phrases have journalistic origins, many are literary, and some go as far back as the Bible -- but every entry will astound you. And the alphabetical, dictionary format makes it easy to find just what you're looking for.Some of the clichés brought into the limelight include: • Blood is thicker than water • Monkey see, monkey do • Brass tacks • Burn the midnight oil • Change of heart • Moral fiber • By the book Whether clichés get under your ...
Author: Christine Ammer
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 9781628734591
Category: Reference
Page: 544
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The largest, most comprehensive, and most entertaining reference of its kind, The Dictionary of Clichés features more than four thousand unique clichés and common expressions. Author Christine Ammer explores the phrases and terms that enliven our language and uncovers expressions that have long been considered dead. With each entry, she includes a thorough definition, origin of the term, and an insightful example. Some of the clichés brought into the limelight include: • Blood is thicker than water • Monkey see, monkey do • Brass tacks • Burn the midnight oil • Change of heart • Moral fiber • By the book Whether clichés get under your skin or make you happy as a clam, The Dictionary of Clichés goes the extra mile to provide an essential resource for students, teachers, writers, and anyone with a keen interest in language. And that’s food for thought.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.
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134963935
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 272
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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.Presents a collection of five thousand proverbs from a variety of cultures throughout history.
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 0304357383
Category: Reference
Page: 463
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Presents a collection of five thousand proverbs from a variety of cultures throughout history.Dictionary of English and Romance Languages Equivalent Proverbs.
DeProverbia, 2011. Funk, Charles Earle. 2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings
and Expressions. New York: ... The Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase
Origins. London: ...
Author: Laura Lee
Publisher: Wellfleet
ISBN: 9781577151340
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 256
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Travel the world with these incredibly fun cliches! Whether cliches get under your skin or make you laugh, Around the World in 80 Cliches goes the extra mile to provide an essential resource for students, teachers, writers, and anyone with a keen interest in language. Each phrase and expression comes with an explanation and place of origin. Cheeky and informative, each cliche is presented in such a way that is sure to keep you laughing through all of your adventures!Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches and Slang Kaiman Lee ... The following references
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Author: Kaiman Lee
Publisher: Environmental Design & Research Ctr
ISBN: 0915250438
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 114
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"CARTOON-ILLUSTRATED METAPHORS: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches and Slang" gives you accurate definitions, origins and usages of metaphors that you will easily understand and apply with clarity and precision. This book is intended to help people who want to "spice up" the way they talk. It is especially effective for people whose native languages are not English. Verbal metaphors used in appropriate contexts can serve business, social, psychological and cultural purposes. Each metaphor occupies one page which makes learning consistent and easy. Each page has a cartoon and a text portion that consists of four categories of information: meaning, alternative, origin and usage. People evaluate you by your conversational skill! Your conversational skill can be directly linked to your career advancement, income level and social standing. To move up, your conversational skill must surpass that of your co-workers. People perceive the level of your intelligence, education and capabilities by how you express yourself in conversion. Get the help from CARTOON-ILLUSTRATED METAPHORS: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches and Slang. Clear your path to success! If you cannot express your ideas eloquently, you can appear as lack of competence and qualification. Impress your audience with "your metaphors" in the right context. Get "your metaphors" from CARTOON-ILLUSTRATED METAPHORS: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches and Slang. Your conversational expressions will have pin-point accuracy! You will learn from CARTOON-ILLUSTRATED METAPHORS: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches and Slang the accurate definitions, origins and usage of "your metaphors," and apply them with clarity and precision.Contains over 65,000 slang words, definitions, where and when the word originated, and more.
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 0304344354
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 1316
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Contains over 65,000 slang words, definitions, where and when the word originated, and more.Have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"?
Author: Nigel Rees
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0304349658
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 273
View: 790
Have any idea where the word "nerd" came from, or "twerp"? This dictionary starts where ordinary references beg off. *Discover that bad hair day was originated by California teenagers in the early 1990s. *Learn that bikini comes from the name of a Pacific island used in the 1940s for atomic bomb tests. *Learn why a flight data recorder is called a black box--even though it's orange. 224 pages 5 x 7 3/4.It's two books in one, with over 200,000 entries -- and that saves time and trouble! This combination of dictionary and thesaurus brings you right to the word you need.
Author: E. M. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 0304350044
Category: Education
Page: 1277
View: 863
It's two books in one, with over 200,000 entries -- and that saves time and trouble! This combination of dictionary and thesaurus brings you right to the word you need. Because the synonyms are linked to definitions, it's less likely you'll choose one that doesn't convey exactly the right meaning. Of course, it also does everything you'd expect a regular dictionary to do -- detail grammar, highlight slang, suggest antonyms, and give pronunciation guidelines.Hayakawa, S.I.and Fletcher,P.J. (eds), Cassell'sModern Guide toSynonyms
andRelated Words,London,Cassell, 1971. Hoad, T.F. ... Long, T.H. and Summers,
D., The Longman Dictionary ofEnglish Idioms, London, Longman, 1979.
Longman ...
Author: P. Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781135794934
Category: History
Page: 548
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This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Clichés. Lincolnwood, Ill.: NTC ... London: Kyle
Cathie, 2004. Knowles, E. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and
Quotation. Oxford: ... Pickering, D. Cassell's Dictionary of Proverbs. 2nd edition.
London: ...
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 9780816066735
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 499
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Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.
Author: Julia Cresswell
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
ISBN: UCSC:32106012288178
Category: Clichés
Page: 296
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This dictionary investigates the wide range of cliches throughout the history of the English language. With over 1500 sourced cliches listed, both ancient an modern, this work looks at the more informal side of the English language.The Cassell dictionary of clichés . London : Cassell . Riley , R. ( 1994 ) . Movie -
induced tourism . In A. Seaton et al . ( Eds . ) , Tourism : The state of the art ( pp .
453-458 ) . Chichester : Wiley . Rogers , J. ( 1985 ) . The dictionary of clichés .
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03 Maggio , R . The dictionary of bias - free usage 428 Makkai , A . A dictionary of
American idioms 427 Metaphors dictionary ... 88 Rees , N . Cassell dictionary of
clichés 423 Usage The AMA style guide for business writing 808 Buckley , W . F ...
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The index is helpful in locating entries for expressions subsumed under similar
sayings , and cross references are found in the text as well . While several
resources on clichés are currently available ( e.g. , Nigel Rees's Cassell's
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Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.