Over-familiar expressions pepper the English language. This dictionary brings together over 1000 of the worst offenders. Nigel Rees explains in what contexts they most frequenty crop up, where and when they originated, and at what point they can be said to have become fully-fledged cliches.
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Nigel Rees is the author of over 50 books, including the Cassell Dictionary of Humorous Quotations and the Cassell Companion to Quotations. He is the deviser and presenter of BBC Radio's Quote...Unquote, through which he has become an authority on the popular use of language in slogans, catchphrases, cliches, idioms and quotations.
Over-familiar expressions pepper the English language. This dictionary brings together over 1000 of the worst offenders. Nigel Rees explains in what contexts they most frequenty crop up, where and when they originated, and at what point they can be said to have become fully-fledged cliches.
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