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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.Partridge, Eric is the author of 'Dictionary of Cliches With an Introductory Essay' with ISBN 9780415065559 and ISBN 0415065550.
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