Brewer's Dictionary of 20th Century Phrase and Fable

by HoughtonMifflinCompany (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $4.18

  This classic reference of definitions, anedotes, slang, allusions, proverbs, and much hard-to-find information on the arts, literature, science, and popular culture has been completely revised and updated to reflect the present state of our language. Features 8,000 new words and phrases--everything from Graceland to glasnost--coined since 1900.