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The introduction examines historical and dictionary perspectives on overuse, lost freshness, and hackneyed meaning, citing views from Eric Partridge, Frank Muir, John Ayto, and others. The work traces the term’s etymology to French “clicher,” tied to stereotype printing plates.","B L O O M S B U R YDICTIONARY OFCLICHÉSPublishers of the Encarta®World English Dictionary  \n# OVER 1,300 FAMILIAR PHRASESEXPLORED AND EXPLAINED\n\nBETTY KIRKPATRICK  \n## LLYFRGELL COLEGMEIRION -DWYFOR\n\nLIBRARY  \n118344  \n## DICTIONARYOFCLICHES\n\nColeg Meirion-Dwyfor  \nSafle Dolgellau|Dolgellau Site  \nLlyfrgell |Library  \n## CYFEIRIOLREFERENCE\n\n## DICTIONARY\n\nCLICHES5  \n# BETTY KIRKPATRICK\n\nBLO○MS BURY  \nFor Stewart and Trina,the apples of my eye,the jewels in my crown,my pride and joy,the salt of the earth and my towers ofstrength,otherwise known as my sonand daughter.  \nAll rights reserved:no part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrievalsystem,or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,nechanical,photocopying or othervise,without the prior wrtten permission of the publisher.  \nFirst published in 1996 byBloomsbury Publishing Plc,38 Soho Square,London,W1D 3HBwww.bloomsburymagazine.comThis paperback edition published 2001  \nCopyright C by Betty Kirkpatrick 1996  \nThe moral right of the author has been asserted  \nA copy of the CIP entry for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 0747554447  \n10987654321  \nDesigned by Hugh Adams,AB3Typeset by Hewer Text Ltd,EdinburghPrinted in England by Clays Ltd,St Ives plc  \n# Introduction\n\nIt has become something of a linguistic cliché to say that it is difficult to define a cliché.Several writers have pointed to the elusive nature of this well-known fracture of ourlanguage.  \nIn his Introduction to A Dictionary of Cliches,first published in 1940,Eric Partridgeobserved that it is impossible to get the average person,even 'the averagely well-educatedperson'to provide an articulate definition of a cliché.According to Partridge,theaforementioned average person when asked to explain the nature of the cliché wouldsay'Oh,well,you know what a cliché is,'and hesitate and stumble,and become incoherent.  \nIf we took a random sample of 'averagely well-educated persons'today,we would findthat,as far as defining a cliché is concerned,things have not changed radically in the halfcentury since Partridge was writing.Most people in this category would know instinctivelywhat a cliché is,but few would commit themselves to an exact definition.  \nFrank Muir in his Introduction to The Methuen Dictionary of Clichés,compiled byChristine Ammer,and published in 1992,comments on the general inadequacies ofdictionaries in providing assistance with the task of getting to grips with the cliché.Muir isof the opinion that all they usually do is refer us to 'stereotype'which in turn leads to adescription of making cast metal printing plates 'from a mould of wet newspaper intowhich a frame of moveable type has been pressed and sat upon.'  \nJohn Ayto in The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins,published in 1990,explainsthis allusion further.'Originally,French clicher meant literally\"stereotype”-that is\"print from a plate made by making a type-metal cast from a mould of a printingsurface”.'He goes on,Hence a word or phrase that was a cliché had literally beenrepeated time and time again in identical form from a single printing plate.'In non-literal terms a cliché came to describe an expression that was repeated so often that itlost its freshness and became hackneyed.  \nFrank Muir is perhaps a little unfair to dictionaries as most of them do make the pointthat clichés are items of language that are overused.Collins English Dictionary,for example,defines cliché as a word or expression that has lost much of its force through over-exposure'.The Oxford Advanced Leamer's Dictionary takes up the same theme with phraseor idea which is used so often that it has become stale or meaningless'.  \nHW Fowler in his Dictionary of Modem Usage,first published in 1926,makes much thesame point in a more literary way.'Cliché means a stereotype;'he writes,in its 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