This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in...

Originally published: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint of the second ed...

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Dictionary of Catch Phrases

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This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reve...

From abdabs to zitFrom pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century)From She'll be apples...

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become p...

This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions with origins in all...

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This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and e...

This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary, discus...

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Demons, devils, spirits and vampires are present throughout popular Western culture in film, musi...

The 1931 edition of the classic that presents the fashionable words and favorite expressions of o...

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For ANYONE WHO IMAGINES THEMSELVES FLYING A SPITFIRE.Drop your visiting cards, put aside your bee...

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An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phras...

In einem abgelegenen Tal wird die junge Naturfotografin Harper Zeuge eines grausamen Verbrechens....

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