pleonasms

Replace "of" with "have," and it's a perfectly serviceable phrase pleonasms-that is, using more words than necessary.

Writing, Clear and Simple 2008

The neoplasm of my pleonasms gets my jelly in a righteous tart!

Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0 2010

Then, again, many of those verses are disfigured with syntactical pleonasms and other grave errors.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Ey, an island, [Footnote: Isle of Sheppey, Mersea Island, etc, are pleonasms.] survives as the last element of many names, and is not always to be distinguished from hey (hay, Settlements, Chapter III) and ley.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

In pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated, the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in -- "The men, they were there."

The Philosophy of Style Herbert Spencer 1861

Its figures of speech, pleonasms, ellipses, anacolutha, pros to semainomenon, and the like have no reality; they do not either make conscious expressions more intelligible or show the way in which they have arisen; they are chiefly designed to bring an earlier use of language into conformity with the later.

Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

Such pleonasms are ornative of speech, especially when they render the same thing more emphatically so, than if there were not that pleonastical addition.

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

I do not see the impropriety of _verbal question_; such pleonasms are common.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

To make matters worse, squareness is always insisted on by the "straight" and "square" crowd, those who speak in vexatious pleonasms such as reference to "straight-edged squares" (as if there are any other kind).

Evolution News & Views 2009

To make matters worse, squareness is always insisted on by the "straight" and "square" crowd, those who speak in vexatious pleonasms such as reference to "straight-edged squares" (as if there are any other kind).

Evolution News & Views 2009