2: Not recommended for those looking for origions of cliches.
This volume fails to reflect the cliche: "You get what you pay for". Despite the description: "...this new addition to Barron's "Pocket Guides" series takes on the subject of cliches--their origins, meanings, examples used within the context of a sentence, and in many cases, the regions where the idiom is used most often." and the words on the cover of the guide regarding the origions of cliches, I was unable to find a single origion in the guide. It is a very lean publication with generous white space. I returned it for a full refund.
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