Barron's Pocket Guide to Cliches: "Hit the Road" (Barron's Pocket Guides) | 
 enlarge | Author: Arthur Bell
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 701415
Media: Paperback
Pages: 155
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0764106724
Dewey Decimal Number: 423.1
EAN: 9780764106729
ASIN: 0764106724
Publication Date: February 1999
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Amazon.com Review
This is an entertaining little volume, and oddly addictive to folks who love a good, tired turn of phrase. Open to the M's, for instance, and you'll find "mad as a hatter," which is significantly different from "mad as a hornet," plus a variety of "make" phrases, including "make a clean breast," "make a killing," "make a long story short," "make a monkey out of," and "make hay while the sun shines," as well as "make one tick," "make one's mark," and the simple yet evocative "make waves." Fun as it is, however, to read through the well-worn bromides and homilies, one might wonder about the IPocket Guide's/I practical applications.p For the foreign-born student of English, the applications are clear. These are the phrases that drive students crazy, the ones that can't be looked up in a standard dictionary and whose meanings can't be intuited by looking up each word and piecing it all together. Try deciphering "coin a phrase" or "dressed to the nines" if English isn't your first tongue. It's also handy for native speakers for understanding the cliches of other generations and regions. And it's especially worthwhile for writers learning to recognize the trite chestnuts they might want to avoid. When a phrase is so tried and true that it flows from your pen as easy as 1, 2, 3, you can look it up in the IPocket Guide/I and see if perhaps you might want to find a more original way to express yourself. I--Stephanie Gold/I
Product Description
A practical, fast-reference guide for home or office, this new addition to Barron's "Pocket Guides" series takes on the subject of cliches--their origins, meanings, examples used within the context of a sentence, and in many cases, the regions where the idiom is used most often. This volume is also a great way for ESL students to gain insights into informal American English as it is really spoken.
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 A handy resource for ESL students or any non-native English speaker November 30, 2005
Exodus Forum (USA)
I like the small book, well-suited for a carry-on bag, which has much of what one needs to enhance daily communications in English. It helps listening comprehension, especially for sentences you cannot find in regular dictionaries. It serves an excellent niche for those whose mother-tongue is not English and want to add some colors to their communications, either in presentation or comprehension.
 Not recommended for those looking for origions of cliches. August 10, 1999
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
This volume fails to reflect the cliche: "You get what you pay for". pDespite the description:p"...this new addition to Barron's Pocket Guides series takes on the subject of cliches--their origins, meanings, examples used within the context of a sentence, and in many cases, the regions where the idiom is used most often." pand the words on the cover of the guide regarding the origions of cliches, I was unable to find a single origion in the guide.pIt is a very lean publication with generous white space. I returned it for a full refund.
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