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

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

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

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. force...

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historica...

First published in 1940, this book was designed by Eric Partridge to equip students, studying for...

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

First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring ...

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

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

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

Drawn from the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on the expressio...