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ailsagirl

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Wed Jun 8, 2016, 12:06 AM Jun 2016

A comprehensive website of cliches (though I prefer to call them idioms) [View all]

Fascinating because, among other things, it lists the country of origin (and it's astonishing how many of these idioms originated in the US)

http://clichesite.com/alpha_list.asp?which=lett+1

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