In a recent cartoon posting, one (#2) from New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh, who frequently plays with language. Here are five more from Walsh on formulaic, conventionalized, or clichéd language. There will be food: chestnuts, hot dogs, and (sliced) bread. Old chestnuts. First, about names for such language, in particular the idiom an old chestnut … Continue reading Walsh plays with formulaic and conventionalized language