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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This compulsively readable new addition to Barron's "Pocket Guides" series covers American clich?s from "absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "yellow-bellied." Bell, a professor of management communication at the University of San Francisco and author of A Pocket Guide to Synonyms and A Pocket Guide Thesaurus, identifies three target audiences for his guide: native English speakers who don't understand the clich?s of other generations, non-native speakers of American English baffled by the language's colloquialisms, and writers interested in avoiding clich?s in their work. This is a "quick and dirty" source, providing only concise definitions and the illustrative use of each clich? in a sentence. The absence of an index limits the book's utility somewhat, as does the lack of cross referencing. Bell makes no claims to have written a comprehensive source; those interested in the origins and deeper meanings of clich?s should consult the lengthier and more scholarly entries in Christine Ammer's Have a Nice DayANo Problem: A Dictionary of Clich?s (LJ 1/92) or Betty Kirkpatrick's Clich?s: Over 1500 Phrases Explored and Explained (LJ 7/97). While not as detailed or as inclusive as these sources, this pocket guide is a useful and cheap reference source for people who want to "get down to the brass tacks" of a succinct definition. Recommended for quick reference or for idle minutes at the reference desk.AKathleen Collins, Arizona State Univ. West Lib., Phoenix
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