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.A revised, updated and expanded edition of Cassell's guide to some 1200 popular catchphrases.
Author: Nigel Rees
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 0304366854
Category: Reference
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A revised, updated and expanded edition of Cassell's guide to some 1200 popular catchphrases.Dictionary of Catchphrases. London: Taylor & Francis, 2005. Percival, P. Tamil
Proverbs. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1996. Rees, Nigel. The
Cassell Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins. London: Cassell, 1999. Rogers,
James.
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
have been used by the author : The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Christine Ammer The Cassell Dictionary of English Idioms ----- Rosalind
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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.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
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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.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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Presents a collection of five thousand proverbs from a variety of cultures throughout history.
Author: David Pickering
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0304357383
Category: Reference
Page: 463
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Presents a collection of five thousand proverbs from a variety of cultures throughout history.Hyamson, A. M. A Dictionary of English Phrases. Detroit, MI: Gale Research
Company, 1970. Kieffer, J. What Are Those Crazy Americans Saying? 3d ed.
Fairfax, VA: Kieffer Publications, 2000. Kirkpatrick, B., ed. Cassell Concise
English ...
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786458554
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 403
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Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, clichés, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.For cliches distinctly British, consider Nigel Rees's Cassell Dictionary of Cliches (
1996 ). For concise definitions and illustrations of American cliches, Arthur H.
Bell's A Pocket Guide to Clichts ( 1999) is useful, although it has neither index nor
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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 Usage The AMA style guide for business writing 808 Buckley , W . F ...
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Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slangand Unconventional English : From A
Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric ... The Dead and the
Quick : Clichés and Neologisms in the Written , Spoken and Visual Cultures of
Britain , the United States and France . ... Cassell's Dictionary of Word and
Phrase Origins .
Author: Ralph Keyes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190466787
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 320
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Successful word-coinages--those that stay in currency for a good long time--tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems. He also finds some fascinating patterns, such as that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by design. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, originally intended to troll or taunt. Knickers, for example, resulted from a hoax; big bang from an insult. Casual wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. More than a few resulted from happy accidents, such as typos, mistranslations, and mishearing (bigly and buttonhole), or from being taken entirely out of context (robotics). Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just scholars and writers but cartoonists, columnists, children's book authors. Wimp originated with a book series, as did goop, and nerd from a book by Dr. Seuss. Coinages are often contested, controversy swirling around such terms as gonzo, mojo, and booty call. Keyes considers all contenders, while also leading us through the fray between new word partisans, and those who resist them strenuously. He concludes with advice about how to make your own successful coinage. The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word mavens but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone who loves the immersive power of language.Unquote 3 , 1983 ; Word of Mouth , 1983 ; The Nigel Rees Book of Slogans and
Catchphrases , 1984 ; The Joy of Cliches ... Anecdotes , 1994 ; Brewer ' s
Quotations , 1994 ; As We Say in Our House , 1994 ; Cassell Dictionary of
Catchphrases ...
Author: Miranda H. Ferrara
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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.John A . Simpson , The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs ( Oxford : Oxford
University Press , 1982 ) , p . 34 . 86 . Neil Ewart , Cassell Everyday Phrases :
Their Origins and Meanings ( London : Cassell , 1983 ) , pp . 3637 . 87 . Rosalind
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ISBN: PSU:000063272383
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