TPCN - Cliches - Learn About Their Meanings And Origins!

Here's The Cliche
For Thursday, February 26, 1999!

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The pick of the litter

The best of the lot. Versions of this term have been around in various forms for a long time-from the pick of the market and pick of the parish to the pick of the basket (all nineteenth century) and pick of the bunch (twentieth century). The cliché alludes to selecting the most desirable from a litter of puppies.

In case you don't know what a cliché is, this will give you a good understanding.

A cliché is a term that is very common because it has been used over and over again throughout the years. Some clichés are meaningless verbosity, such as "have nice day", "no problem", or "take it from me", or "the best thing since sliced bread," etc. They provide us with a useful, colorful conversational shorthand, and most of them began life as phrases so picturesque and quotable that they were quoted over and over and over and over and over.

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The source for the above cliché is:

HAVE A NICE DAY - NO PROBLEM! A DICTIONARY OF CLICHÉS
By Christine Ammer

This book contains 3,000 clichés, each comes with a mini-essay (like the one above), explaining the term's origin and history, as well as its meaning and use. It's perfect for students, writers, and speakers... and is definitely an exciting addition to the bookshelf of everyone who deals with the spoken or written word. Yes, now you can use clichés to impress your family and friends.

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