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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 popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this …
You Have a Point There
This standard work on punctuation has long been judged the foremost study of the subject. It reveals punctuation to be both an indispensable craft and an invaluable art - a friend, …
A Dictionary of Cliches
This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient …
Oxford American Handbook of Disaster Medicine
Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many …
Dictionary of Catch Phrases
A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
The 1931 edition of the classic that presents the fashionable words and favorite expressions of olden times.
Comic Alphabets
First published in 1961, this book explores the form of the comic alphabet. Whether through poems, prose or phonetics, the alphabet has become a way in which mankind has taken …
Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,
During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and …
Dictionary of Abbreviations
First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.M. forces to make their way amid the jungle of wartime abbreviations. The preface notes …
A Dictionary of RAF Slang
The perfect stocking filler for anyone who imagines themselves flying a spitfire . . . Drop your visiting cards, put aside your beer-lever, stop being a half-pint hero and discover …