Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase and fable
Dictionary of modern phrase & fable
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| Other authors / contributors: | Ayto, John.
Crofton, Ian.
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| ISBN: | 9780550105646
0550105646
0304368091
9780304368099
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| Notes: | English.
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| Summary: | From the publishers of the perennially best-selling Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comes a phrase and fable dictionary for the 21st century. With its unique blend of word and phrase etymology, cultural allusion and general knowledge, and its predilection for the esoteric and the unexpected, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable offers a richly diverse and entertaining exploration of the linguistic and cultural landscape of the modern world. It runs the whole gamut of contemporary culture, from American Psycho to Dadaism and G and T to Lara Croft.
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| Other form: | Print version: Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable. 2nd ed. / by John Ayto & Ian Crofton. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006
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