Episode # 1845
11/10 Ira Gershwin’s Cliches Because song lyrics are so short, songwriters often turned to cliches, a few words that everybody understood. But the best of the lyricists—Ira Gershwin among them—not only used them, he reinvented them and wrote about them. He brought them back to life.
In Ira Gershwin Selected Lyrics by Robert Kimball, he writes: Ira Gershwin once remarked that he tried to capture the way people spoke to each other—their slang, their clichés, the catch phrases.
