A Dictionary of Cliches

by EricPartridge (Editor), EricPartridge (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1978

  $3.44

• Used

  Paperback
  1978

  $3.44

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  1978

  $35.72

  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.