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The war on cliches is preheating up

January 21, 2013 4:46 PM By JERRY ZEZIMA

Jerry Zezima

Newsday staffer Jerry Zezima Jerry Zezima

Jerry Zezima, a Newsday assistant editor who writes a nationally

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I know cliches like the back of my hand and I've always thought that people should avoid them like the plague.

That's why I am happy, at this point in time, to know that, going forward, two distinguished word gurus are thinking outside the box and, at the end of the day, fighting the good fight to keep the English language free from hackneyed phrases that I can't wrap my head around because,...

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