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"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
- John Keats
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 208 pages
Edition: U.S. PAPER
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312198442
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
Kirkpatrick has compiled some 1,500 phrases here. After an "introduction that discusses the controversy over the definition of cliches and the . . . reputation they have acquired, Kirkpatrick offers an alphabetic listing of such . . . {cliches} as lock, stock and barrel; over the moon; thanks but no thanks; and we must have lunch sometime. The author {assigns each cliche} . . .to one or more of 14 categories, such as proverb or hackneyed phrase, followed by a . . . note on the usage and derivation of the term." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
Cliches: the bad guys of the English language, overused, abused, and sniffed at by school teachers? Or do they receive bad press? Are they actually an irreplaceable form of linguistic shorthand? Betty Kirkpatrick, an editor of Roget's Thesaurus, has exhaustively researched and compiled a list of our most common phrases, presented alphabetically. She provides the origin of each cliche, a humorous example of its use, and explores how a phrase becomes a cliche, when we use them, and why. This dictionary is a must for writers, crossword puzzle buffs, and anyone who is intrigued by language.
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The die hath been cast
-- A reviewer, making brownies with steve johnston, July 9, 2001
Perfection!
-- J.Ozwald, pure steel and sex appeal., June 27, 2001
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