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Dictionary of Catch Phrases

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

You Have a Point There

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

Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine

Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the ...

Shorter Slang Dictionary

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

Slang To-Day and Yesterday

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Lure of the Dark Side

The aim of this volume is to examine the demonic foil within popular culture. Moreover, it will b...

Origins

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocab...

Shakespeare’s Bawdy

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

Origins

This etymological dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vo...

The Lure of the Dark Side

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

Dictionary of Cliches

This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senseless...