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Alcohol wordlore and folklore : being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associa

Abel, Ernest L., 1943-
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1987. 1987

The American heritage dictionary of idioms for students of English.

Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2001. 2001

Americanisms; a dictionary of selected Americanisms on historical principles,

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966] 1966

The BBI combinatory dictionary of English

Benson, Morton.
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2010. 2010

Behind the words : the FCO, hegemonolingualism and the end of Britain's freedom

Mallinson, Bill, author.
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. 2014

Beyond hypocrisy : decoding the news in an age of propaganda : including A doublespeak dictionary fo

Herman, Edward S.
Boston, MA : South End Press, c1992. 1992

The book of literary terms : the genres of fiction, drama, nonfiction, literary criticism, and schol

Turco, Lewis, author.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2020] 2020

A Book of useful phrases

[Lancaster, Ohio : Little Blue Book Co., 1979]. 1979

A book of useful phrases

Smith, Lloyd Edwin, 1902-1971.
Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1925. 1925

Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable

London : Cassell, 2000. 2000

Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable

London [Eng.] : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012

Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable.

New York, N.Y. : HarperResource, c1999. 1999

A browser's dictionary, and native's guide to the unknown American language

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, c1980. 1980

Cardinal men and scarlet women a colorful etymology of words that discriminate

Keessen, Jan, 1943-
Milwaukee, Wisc. : Marquette University Press, c2009. 2009

Cassell's dictionary of word and phrase origins

Rees, Nigel, 1944-
London : Cassell, 2002. 2002

Common American phrases in everyday contexts : a detailed guide to real-life conversation and small

Spears, Richard A.
New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, c2003. 2003

Critical terms for art history

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003. 2003

Critical terms for art history

Chicago [Ill.] : University of Chicago Press, c2003 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012

Critical terms for literary study

Chicago [Ill.] : University of Chicago Press, 1995 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012

Culinary linguistics the chef's special

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013. 2013

A dictionary of cliches : with an introductory essay

Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979
London, [England] : Boston, Mass. : Routledge and Paul, 1978. 1978

A dictionary of Hong Kong English words from the fragrant harbor

Cummings, Patrick Jean.
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2011. 2011

A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

Cuddon, J. A. (John Anthony), 1928-1996.
Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1998. 1998

Brewer's dictionary of phrase and fable.

Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, 1810-1897.
New York, Harper & Row [c1970] 1970

Dictionary of public international law

Doebbler, Curtis Francis, author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 2018

Dictionary of word and phrase origins,

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York, Harper & Row [1962- 1962

Dictionary of word and phrase origins

Manser, Martin, author.
Cork : BookBaby, 2018. 2022

Dictionary of world literature : criticism, forms, technique

Shipley, Joseph T. (Joseph Twadell), 1893-1988
New York, N.Y. : Philosophical Library, [c1953] 1953

Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases

Whiting, Bartlett Jere, 1904-1995.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. 1977

The elements of English : a glossary of basic terms for literature, composition, and grammar

Malless, Stan, 1947- author.
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2014. 2014

English as a lingua franca a corpus-based analysis

Prodromou, Luke.
London ; New York : Continuum, c2008. 2008

English-Portuguese equivalents of forestry and conservation terms

Francis, John K.
New Orleans, La. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, [1994] 1994

Everything you know about English is wrong

Brohaugh, William.
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2008. 2008

An exaltation of larks

Lipton, James.
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1991. 1991

From hue and cry to humble pie : curious, bizarre, and incomprehensible expressions explained

Parkinson, Judy.
[Oxford, England] : Past Times, 2000. 2000

A glossary of literary terms

Abrams, M. H. (Meyer Howard), 1912-2015.
Fort Worth, Tex. : HEINLE 2004 1999

A hog on ice : and other curious expressions

Funk, Charles Earle, 1881-1957.
New York, N.Y. : Harper & Row, 1985, c1948. 1985

It's been said before : a guide to the use and abuse of cliches

Hargraves, Orin, author.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. 2014

Keywords of identity, race, and human mobility in early modern England

Das, Nandini, 1974- author.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021] 2021

Loose cannons and red herrings : a book of lost metaphors

Claiborne, Robert.
New York : Ballantine, 1989, c1988. 1989

Mad as a wet hen! ; and other funny idioms

Terban, Marvin.
New York : Clarion Books, 1987. 1987

Megawords 200 terms you really need to know

Osborne, Richard, 1952-
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2002. 2002

Morris dictionary of word and phrase origins

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York : Harper & Row, c1988. 1988

Morris Dictionary of word and phrase origins

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York : Harper & Row, c1977. 1977

Never enough words : how Americans invented expressions as ingenious, ornery, and colorful as themse

McQuain, Jeff, 1955-
New York : Random House, 1999. 1999

Noblesse oblige; an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy

Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973.
New York, Harper [1956] 1956

The nonsexist word finder : a dictionary of gender-free usage

Maggio, Rosalie.
Boston : Beacon Press, 1989, c1988. 1989

The official dictionary of unofficial English : a crunk omnibus for thrillionaires and bampots for t

Barrett, Grant.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006. 2006

The Oxford dictionary of allusions

Delahunty, Andrew.
Oxford, [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2001. 2001

The Oxford dictionary of phrase and fable

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 2000