Dear Reader,
I love clichés. I love idioms, sayings, expressions, wit and wisdom, aphorisms, turns of phrase. Not unthinking cliché, of course, which can leave prose as dead as a door nail. But idioms that reveal something about how we perceive or experience the world. This passage, from Eric Partiridge’s Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English, puts it well.
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