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The author is very much at his ease in the last example; the novice who should yawn in our faces with such engaging candour would render himself liable to misinterpretation.

c. The well-worn 'flood-of-tears-and-sedan-chair' pleasantry.

d. Other worn-out phrases of humorous tendency.