'Page-turner' A cliche?

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Would you say the phrase 'page-turner' is a cliché?ThanksPBF

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

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Peaceblinkfriend · Answer

It didn't return any hits. I think the jury is till out though. I mean I have always thought 'page turner' had been used so often that it must have lost its original meaning.

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Delmobile · Answer

I don't think of this as a cliche in a negative way - more like a useful shorthand term, like cliff hanger or bodice ripper.

Philip · Answer

Delmobile I don't think of this as a cliche in a negative way - more like a useful shorthand term, like cliff hanger or bodice ripper.

Bodice ripper? You southerners really get into your reading, don't you!

BarbaraPA · Answer

Philip, you need to replace "you southerners" with "you gals."

A bodice-ripper is a romantic novel usually involving some combination of heaving bosoms, castles, swords, and rogues with hearts of gold. The covers have absurdly muscled men with their shirts in tatters, with one arm wrapped around the damsel in a pose of intense passion.

Frankly, it's a mainstay of my summer reading.

Philip · Answer

Grammar GeekPhilip, you need to replace "you southerners" with "you gals."

A bodice-ripper is a romantic novel usually involving some combination of heaving bosoms, castles, swords, and rogues with hearts of gold. The covers have absurdly muscled men with their shirts in tatters, with one arm wrapped around the damsel in a pose of intense passion.

Frankly, it's a mainstay of my summer reading.

Actually, within an hour after posting that joke to the "southerners", I learned from a friend exactly what a "bodice ripper" is. I should have known, since until recently I often posed for artists making covers for those books.

Delmobile · Answer

Philip, didn't I meet you at the photo shoot for "Unreconstructed Vixen"?

Years ago, when I was in college, an acquaintance started a career of writing what were billed as "historical novels," full up with well-researched local history, but having somewhat lurid covers. In our small town, she was of course quite celebrated; the English faculty at my school seethed with a combination of envy and scorn, but they had to line up with a smile to buy signed copies. My Shakespeare professor's wife described her husband bursting out of his study waving his copy and yelling, "Look! Page thirteen - he's actually ripped her bodice!!"

Peaceblinkfriend · Answer

Historical novels?

I wonder if it's a euphemism for bodice-ripper in those days.

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