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Julia Cresswell
ISBN: 9780140514278
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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This informative dictionary takes the lid off many hundreds of tired and hackneyed expressions, exploring their history, showing who used them and when, and demonstrating just how deeply rooted many of them have now become. Looks at 1500 cliches ancient (add insult to injury, gird up your loins), modern (girl power, golden handshake) and vogue (let's do lunch, jobsworth)…
This informative dictionary takes the lid off many hundreds of tired and hackneyed expressions, exploring their history, showing who used them and when, and demonstrating just how deeply rooted many of them have now become. Looks at 1500 cliches ancient (add insult to injury, gird up your loins), modern (girl power, golden handshake) and vogue (let's do lunch, jobsworth); tracks down the origins of such phrases as back to the drawing board, kindred spirit, and double whammy and pinpoints when they can be said to have become overused; includes many illustrative quotations from the famous - and the infamous.
| ISBN | 0140514279 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780140514278
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 236 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Series title | Penguin Reference Books S. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 193 | | Publication date | 17 Apr 2000 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 423.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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