The Facts On File Dictionary of Cliches, Third Edition is the largest, most comprehensive, and most entertaining reference of its kind. Featuring hundreds of new cliches, this updated and expanded edition explains the meanings and origins of more than 4,000 cliches and common expressions. Each entry includes the meaning of the cliche or expression, its origin and early uses, its historical development, and its present-day usage. This fully indexed and cross-referenced resource is essential for students, writers, and anyone seeking the gift of gab.
Lively Language Lessons for Reluctant Learners Book 2
Creative activities with a humorous, offbeat flavor to motivate students to get involved in thinking and expressing themselves. Lessons include: alliteration, rhyming, ambiguities, similies, metaphors, oxymorons, cliches, essays, short stories and much more.
It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Cliches by Orin Hargraves
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?
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.
A companion to the bestselling Words that Sell, the next definitive advertising word-and phase book
More Words That Sell is packed with 3,500high-powered, idea-generating words, phrases, and slogans, arranged by category and purpose (example categories include Power Words, Sounds, Technology, Youth Market, and dozens more). Containing checklists and other helpful features like its bestselling predecessor Words That Sell--but with literally no overlapping words--it will be valuable for devotees of that classic book and new fans.