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"The best kind of reference book--one that amuses as it instructs. I fell for it hook, line, and sinker."
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IN A NUTSHELL, here's a terrific A TO Z listing of the meanings and origins of over 2,000 common or particularly interesting cliches for everyone who delights in the pleasure of words.
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALERR
IN A NUTSHELL, here's a terrific A TO Z listing of the meanings and origins of over 2,000 common or particularly interesting cliches for everyone who delights in the pleasure of words.
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The Dictionary of Cliches offers the most thorough treatment yet published of all those trite but apt sayings we use all the time but rarely stop to consider.
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The first dictionary of its kind revitalizes more than two thousand cliches and tired phrases by revealing the history of the origin behind each one.
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- PublisherFacts On File Inc
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0816010102
- ISBN 13 9780816010103
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages305
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