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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

by Adrian Room (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2000

    $4.32
Synopsis

Includes more than 7500 words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, names, nicknames, 'named' events and book, film and TV-programme titles - all defined and fully explained Includes definitions and etymologies of new words and phrases, including the language of computer technology Blends scholarly authority with a generous helping of sheer serendipitous fun

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 832
 Edition: 17th ed.
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0304353817
ISBN 13: 9780304353811

Author Bio
Adrian Room is an established writer of reference books, mainly on the origins of words and names. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and American Name Society. He was Senior Lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence until 1984, when he took up full-time writing.