Meaning: consider every resource. Meaning and uses. Rewrite 1: leave no leaf unturned Rewrite 2: keep looking, though you’ve consulted every stone Rewrite 3: consult every spacen3 and crevice Rewrite 4: search till you’ve illuminated even every dark place
Comment: This is as much about exhausting every resource as it is about not giving up.
More reading about clichés What I found when I googled “clichés”: • Australian Media Clichés: “This page is devoted to those expressions so hackneyed and insufferable that they should be forever banned from the nation's news reports.”
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posted by Booksville Bookclub at 10:57 PM on Mar 22, 2006
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