Introduction

There are certain words and phrases that one should avoid because they are so overused as to have become cliches. Writing advice often includes hackneyed phrases we're supposed to avoid. In 19 26 Fowler's dictionary of modern english usage, which was one of the main usage guides of the twentieth century,. And he has a section on hackneyed phrase. Ammon said, t you want to keep the reader's ideas with your ideas, and not on some sort of trite throwaway idiom riht. On each episode, mariam ster, editors amon che peter sakalowski and i explore some aspect of the english language from the dictionary's vantage point