Avoid clichés like the plague? He begs to disagree
Posted by informer on October 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Durable, easily handled, yet retaining somehow the flavor of its coinage, the classic cliché has fought philology to a standstill: it sticks and it stays, and not by accident... “There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” “It takes two to tango”--[o]bservations like these have been road-tested, times beyond number, and discovered to be sound. They are laden with experience, and yet somehow jaunty. Some witty individual must have coined them, somewhere, but they glow with the accumulated knowledge...
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