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commonplace phrase

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See: platitude


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Any open-minded reader," writes Vickers, "who takes stock of the large number of instances where John Davies of Hereford uses an identical commonplace phrase to that used by the author of A Lover's Complaint, with the same wording, often in the same grammatical-syntactical construction or position within the verse line, will conclude that the similarities are too great, and too frequent, to be a coincidence" (231).
Broken flags' can be made to serve all sorts of purposes, but it can't provide a credible standard behind which I can rally my (perhaps unfairly) imagined army of Presbyterian ancestors and marshal them into crack linguistic troops capable of handling commonplace phrases with Baudelarian finesse.
The commonplace phrase that is traced back to the little bunny's mother in Bambi goes thusly: "'If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
 
 
 
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