A Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Oxford Quick Reference) - Softcover

9780192801258: A Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Oxford Quick Reference)
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This new reference work draws on Oxford's unrivaled bank of online language resources to provide a wealth of fascinating and informative background detail for over 10,000 phrases and allusions used in English today. Among this plenitude are entries on African Eve, Blair Babes, Custer's Last Stand, friend of Dorothy, ground zero, Oradour, Red Queen hypothesis, shoot the messenger, and Trojan horse.

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Elizabeth Knowles has been Managing Editor of Oxford Quotations Dictionaries since 1993 and is a historical lexicographer, having previously worked for ten years on the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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`Review from other book by this author IOxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2000): our reference book of the year'
Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 17/12/00

`Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2000): ground-breaking'
Writing Magazine Feb/March 2001

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