Author: Orin Hargraves
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199315744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose. Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.
It's Been Said Before
Author: Orin Hargraves
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199315744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose. Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199315744
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language? In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers understand why certain phrases became clichés and why they should be avoided -- or why they still have life left in them. Indeed, clichés can be useful -- even powerful. And few people even agree on which expressions are clichés and which are not. Many regard any frequent idiom as a cliché, and a phrase regarded as a cliché in one context may be seen simply as an effective expression in another. Examples drawn from data about actual usage support Hargraves' identification of true clichés. They also illuminate his commentary on usage problems and helpful suggestions for eliminating clichés where they serve no useful purpose. Concise and lively, It's Been Said Before serves as a guide to the most overused phrases in the English language -- and to phrases that are used exactly as often as they should be.
It's Been Said Before
Author: Orin Hargraves
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199315736
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In this book, Orin Hargraves provides a concise and lively guide to the most abused phrases in the English language today.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199315736
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In this book, Orin Hargraves provides a concise and lively guide to the most abused phrases in the English language today.
Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First-second Sessions ...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Digest
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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Biennial Report of the Attorney-General of the State of Iowa
Author: Iowa. Department of Justice
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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Category : Attorneys general's opinions
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Conservative
Author: Julius Sterling Morton
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A journal devoted to the discussion of political, economic, and sociological questions.
Year of Yes
Author: Shonda Rhimes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476777098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476777098
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.
The Railroad Trainman
Author:
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs
Author: California (State).
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description