Sinopse

Over 1,300 familiar pharses explored and explained. The de rigueur authority on clichés. Clichés have never been flavour of the month with school teachers, editors or literaly connoisseurs, and are potencial banana skins for journalists and students. For most of us, previning these old hat expressions from punctuating our everyday conversations and writing is more easily said than done.The Boomsburry Dictionary of Clichés spills the beans on the world´s most commonly used clichés. It outlines the situations in which each expression is used, its origins and the reason for its creation.

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