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All Gong and No Dinner: 1001 Homely Phrases and Curious Domestic Sayings

by Nigel Rees

ISBN 13: 9780007249350

Format: Hardcover (400 pages)
Publisher: Collins
Published: 03 Sep 2007

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Dictionary of Word Origins

by L. Flavell,R.H. Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856265645

Format: Paperback (288 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 01 Jul 2004
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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Family Names and Family History

by David Hey

ISBN 13: 9781852852559

Format: Hardcover (224 pages)
Publisher: Hambledon Continuum
Published: 05 Feb 2003

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Place Names of Great Britain and Ireland

by John Field

ISBN 13: 9780715374399

Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
Publisher: David & Charles
Published: Sep 1980

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Dictionary Of Idioms: Revised Edition

by Linda Flavell

ISBN 13: 9781856266642

Format: Paperback (216 pages)
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 05 Dec 2006
Other Format: Hardcover, Paperback

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The Real McCoy: The True Stories Behind Our Everyday Phrases

by Georgia Hole

ISBN 13: 9780192806116

Format: Illustrated (208 pages)
Publisher: OUP UK
Published: 01 Oct 2005

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Altered English: Surprising Meanings of Familiar Words

by Jeffrey Kacirk

ISBN 13: 9780764920196

Format: Hardcover (240 pages)
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications Inc,US
Published: Jan 2002

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Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?: And Other Fearless Investigations into Our Illogical Language

by David Feldman

ISBN 13: 9780060916619

Format: Paperback (224 pages)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 31 Mar 1990

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Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names That History Left Behind

by Harry Campbell,Alexander McCall Smith

ISBN 13: 9781906032050

Format: Illustrated (192 pages)
Publisher: Portico
Published: 01 Sep 2007
Other Format: Paperback

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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

by Adrian Room

ISBN 13: 9780304353811

Format: Hardcover (832 pages)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 02 Nov 2000

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Gallimaufry: A hodgepodge of our vanishing vocabulary

by Michael Quinion

ISBN 13: 9780198610625

Format: Hardcover (288 pages)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 14 Sep 2006
Other Format: Paperback

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Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis: The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases

by Graeme Donald,Andrew Wiest,William Shepherd

ISBN 13: 9781849081573

Format: Paperback (280 pages)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 10 Mar 2010

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