Oxford University Press has published聽It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clich茅s, by Orin Hargraves, lexicographer, research assistant in Martha Palmer's lab, and lecturer in Linguistics and the PWR program. The book examines the use of 肠濒颈肠丑茅s in a broad range of genres and uses corpus data to assess the frequency of various 肠濒颈肠丑茅s from the mildest to the worst offenders. Hargraves makes a strong argument that the pejorative label聽肠濒颈肠丑茅聽is as likely to arise from the misuse of common expressions as from their overuse, and he gives pertinent and clear advice for speakers and writers on how to avoid communicating ineffectively with 肠濒颈肠丑茅s without abandoning them all together, since some 肠濒颈肠丑茅s greatly facilitate the flow of discourse. Hargraves spoke to the Linguistics Circle last year about the book; he is happy鈥攊ndeed, pleased as punch鈥攖o autograph copies for students, faculty and staff.