Clichés
Author: Nigel Fountain
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 184317796X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntertaining and informative, this collection of clichés really is the best thing since sliced bread ...
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The Dictionary of Cliches
Author: James T. Rogers
Publisher: New York : Facts on File
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780816010103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver 2,000 common or amusing cliches, their meanings and origins.
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue
Author: Emmanuelle Pagano
Publisher: Peirene Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 190867055X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift isn't going anywhere but off the road. Snow settles on your car in summer and the sequins found between the pages of a borrowed novel will make your fortune. Pagano's stories weave together the mad, the mysterious and the dispossessed of a rural French community with honesty and humour. A superb, cumulative collection from a unique French voice. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: This is a spellbinding web of stories about people on the periphery. Pagano makes rural France her subject matter. She invokes the closeness of a local community and the links between the inhabitants' lives. But then she reminds us how little we know of each other. 'Devastatingly beautiful.' Le Soir, Belgium 'A treasure hunt that you can follow from title to title...fine-tipped drawings of little bits of the world that attach themselves to each other imperceptibly.' Xavier Houssin, Le Monde 'Pagano succeeds because of the range of her insight and the skill with which she shifts register: from wistfulness to blunt force, or from fantasy to naturalism.' Chris Power, The Guardian 'Endlessly beautiful and poignant.' Le Monde books of the year 2012 'With animal writing, Emmanuelle Pagano invites herself to the side of rebels and solitaries.' Marine Landrot, Télérama
A Dictionary of Clichés
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCliches
Author: Betty Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1999-01-15
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0312198442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn editor of "Roget's Thesaurus" has collected more than 1,500 of the world's favorite cliches, categorizing them according to origin and most common meaning.
Talking in Clichés
Author: Stella Bullo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1108580319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of language, have considered clichés as a hackneyed, tired, lazy, unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge book comprehensively explores the perception and use of clichés in language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and re-imagine the nature, role and usage of clichés, identifying the innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many and varied ways in which clichés operate and are interdependently constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers of identity.
Around the World in 80 Cliches
Author: Laura Lee
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1577151348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents common English language idiomatic expressions, their derivation and the equivalent expressions used in other languages.
Annoying English Cliches
Author: Betty Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1291425594
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a compilation of the most annoying English cliches around today; those expressions that you hear time and time again and that make you cringe with irritation when you do hear them, but which - even more annoyingly! - you find yourself using out of sheer habit.Examples featured include: by and large, to be honest, a categorical denial, courtesy call, these things happen, kill two birds with one stone, it's not the end of the world... and many more.
A Dictionary of Cliches
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 1134963947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case.
21 Female Clichés
Author: Andrey Davydov
Publisher: HPA Press
Published: 2016-07-12
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1310096686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe topic of this book is Female Clichés based on a new scientific direction called Non-Traditional Psychoanalysis. It legalizes some of the subconscious female secrets. Female Clichés are keys to people and situations. All women should learn how to use all 21 Female Clichés professionally. The book is devoted to new principles of female psychology. It is based on a new scientific direction called Non-Traditional Psychoanalysis. The information presents some of the results of scientific research and Non-Traditional Psychoanalysis led by the Special Scientific Info-Analytical Laboratory—Catalog of Human Souls. The laboratory studies the ancient Chinese manuscript called Shan Hai Jing, where structures of 293 human subtypes are described in great detail. This book legalizes one of the subconscious female secrets discovered by the laboratory. As you may already know from our other books and informational materials, a woman has created and arranged this society. There is also another interesting fact that was found: a woman has once created 21 clichés for herself to use. Until now no one in psychology ever considered so many clichés. So the question is: why did women create these clichés? Well, this is another one of female secrets that is no longer a secret! The thing is that women use clichés as management tools. So, from this book you will learn about these female clichés as a powerful weapon for survival, as well as seduction and conquest of men.
