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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Language: en
Pages: 1315
Authors: Eric Partridge
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosop
Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Eric Partridge
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-01-01 - Publisher: Scarborough House

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A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosop
The Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors:
Categories: English language
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:

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This book offers an intriguing and fun tour of common language and is ideal for armchair linguists as well as all film, television, and popular culture junkies.
Catch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-17 - Publisher: McFarland

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Catch phrases such as "shop till you drop," cliches like "life begins at forty" and idioms such as "talk the hind leg off a donkey" have long enriched the Engli
A Dictionary of American Proverbs
Language: en
Pages: 1348
Authors: Wolfgang Mieder
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

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Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was