Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, 17th edition

by John Ayto (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $8.18

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.55

  The sixteenth edition of this reference on phrase and fable. Each entry has been re-read for this edition and updated where necessary. There are over a million words of text, 18,500 main entries and tens of thousands of sub-entries. This edition contains 1000 entirely new entries.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.55

  The 16th edition of this classic reference offers information about thousands of phrases and expressions which are not dealt with in conventional dictionaries. There are entries on people and events from mythology, the Bible, literature and history. Altogether, there are 18,500 main entries and thousands of sub-entries, and this edition contains 700 new entries, including contemporary phrases and expressions, and historic and fictional characters. Major new thematic entries deal with subjects such as hurricane names and mispronounced words. There is also enhanced coverage of present-day idiomatic expressions, including the full monty , all dressed up and nowhere to go , back to the drawing board and couch potato .