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Clichés: neither a defence nor a condemnation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Betty Kirkpatrick
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Abstract

The introduction from the writer's new book, A Dictionary of Cliches, Bloomsbury 1996, outlining a novel family of kinds of hackneyed and overused expressions

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 16 - 25
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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