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«You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.»
«The clich? is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response.»
Author: John Gross | Keywords: hackneyed, idiom, idioms, palm
«I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.»
«The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.»
«As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.»
Author: George F. Will | Keywords: blather, idiom, idioms, printed