Expressions can tell us a lot about the ways our language has developed over centuries.
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National Cliche Day is Nov. 3. So what makes a cliche a cliche? And why do we find ourselves rolling our eyes when we hear certain ones?
Going forward, perhaps we ought to cut office patois some slack – it greases the wheels of business, after all.
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University of Groningen
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota
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Professor of Linguistics, West Virginia University
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Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
