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Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: Penguin Mass Market ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: Penguin Mass Market ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: ISBN: 9780141014456 Category : Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
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.
Author: Christine Ammer Publisher: Skyhorse ISBN: 1628734590 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 703
Book Description
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.
Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141025166 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
A discussion of the history of the most common cliches in the English language on the topics of sports, business, manners, religion, music, journalism, food, politics, and more.
Author: James T. Rogers Publisher: New York : Facts on File ISBN: 9780816010103 Category : Anglais (Langue) - Mots et locutions Languages : en Pages : 305
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Over 2,000 common or amusing cliches, their meanings and origins.
Author: Julia Cresswell Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199547939 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 514
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the origin, evolution, and social history of over three thousand English language words.
Author: Paul W. Lovinger Publisher: Penguin Group USA ISBN: 9780142000465 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 491
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Features more than one thousand primary entries, along with more than two thousand examples of questionable style and the misuse of language, providing valuable lessons for students, writers, and speakers.
Author: William Safire Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199711119 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 887
Book Description
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786459956 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 406
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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, cliches, 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.
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: Christine Ammer
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: James T. Rogers
Author: Daphne M. Gulland
Author: Julia Cresswell
Author: Paul W. Lovinger
Author: William Safire
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov