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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.
- Author
- Rees, Nigel, 1944-
- Publisher
- London : Cassell
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780304346981
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities
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