What is Coughing Up Chandeliers?
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to speak in an overly elaborate and ornamental manner, drawing more attention to your knowledge of language than to what is trying to be conveyed.
Jane would be a better journalist if she wasn't so busy coughing up chandeliers.
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The removal of unnecessesary adverbs from a piece of writing.
Jenny's latest novel manuscript needs a radical adverbectomy.
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