Saturday, March 19, 2011
The Difference Between Idioms and Cliches
While sitting around pondering the difference between idioms and cliches and unable to come up with the distinction on my own, I reached for my trusty MacBook and took a trip to the grammar-and-language-geek section of the internet. I finally found an article that seemed to explain the difference in the clearest possible way. Since I'm sure you also spend your early Saturday evenings pondering idioms, I thought I'd share this article with you. It's a couple years old, but timeless:
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cliches,
Dr. Goodward,
idioms,
language,
Writerly Topics
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