Have a Nice Day--no Problem!: A Dictionary of Clichés
- ISBN-10
- 0525933948
- ISBN-13
- 9780525933946
- Category
- Reference / General
- Pages
- 454
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Author
- Christine Ammer
Description
Wake up and smell the coffee, language lovers! Here's the newest, biggest, most informative collection available of the most reviled of verbal formulas: the cliche. Most cliches started life as phrases so picturesque and quotable that they were quoted, over and over and over. With 3,000 cliches, this popular reference is the very "last word" on the subject.
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