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文档介绍：THE FACTS ON FILE
DICTIONARY OF
Clichés
SECOND EDITION
THE FACTS ON FILE
DICTIONARY OF
Clichés
SECOND EDITION
CHRISTINE AMMER
The Facts On File Dictionary of Clichés, Second Edition
Copyright © 2006 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust
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Ammer, Christine.
The Facts On File dictionary of clichés/Christine Ammer.—2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8160-6279-X (hc: acid-free paper)
1. Clichés—Dictionaries. 2. English language—Usage—Dictionaries. : Dictionary
of clichés. .
2006
423'.1—dc22 2005037999
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Contents
Preface to the New Edition
vii
Author’s Note
ix
Entries A–Z
1
Index
493
IN MEMORY OF DEAN S. AMMER
reface to the
P New Edition
While new cliché may seem like an oxymoron, our language is constantly chang-
ing; after all, how many folks knew about e-mail twenty years ago? And the same
is true not only for individual words but also for the stock phrases we call clichés.
Not only do new usages develop, but also some words and phrases die out. Thus,
who today uses the phrase corporal’s