Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1767 p. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is as impressive, erudite, enjoyable, and educational a tome as you might expect from Oxford. It's the sort of undertaking the press does very well. The first such dictionary, as compiled by Oxford, was published in 1953, and it's been tweaking, modifying, and updating it ever since. This new edition,...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 471 p. Allusions form a colourful extension to the English Language. They provide us with a literary shorthand for describing people, places, and events, and are drawn from a variety of sources. From classical mythology and the Bible come the Wooden Horse of Troy, Achilles, Jason leader of the Argonauts, and also Adam and Eve who feature under a...
Merriam Webster, Inc. , Springfield, Massachusetts, 1999.
Discover the hidden meanings you've been missing: offers clear, concise definitions for more than 900 allusions.
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Oxford, 2011 pages : 1767 The most authoritative paperback dictionary of quotations available, containing over 9,000 quotations from more than 2,300 authors, the Concise Dictionary of Quotations is both a fascinating read and an invaluable general reference tool. Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition maintains its...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. — 549 p. — ISBN 0-203-37996-9. 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 classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the cliches, venerability in every...
This reader-friendly volume contains more than 12,000 famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author. It is unique in its focus on American quotations and its inclusion of items not only from literary and historical sources but also from popular culture, sports, computers, science, politics, law, and the social sciences. Anonymously authored items appear in sections...
Revised & Enlarged. — New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. — vi, 977 pages.
Этот словарь первоначально был опубликован в 1870 году и предназначался для растущего числа людей, которые не имели университетского образования, но хотели бы понять происхождение выражений и их исторический или литературный контекст. Книга имела колоссальный успех, т.к. давала информацию зачастую не...
Oxford University Press, 2001, 494 p. ‘There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about, ’ said Oscar Wilde. This collection of quotations brings together what all sorts of people have had to say about each other: whether admiring, disapproving, cruel, or just witty. Most of the quotations are from people who are just as...
416 pp; W. W. Norton & Company (August 17, 1995) Gramb's Describer's Dictionary is one of the finest books written about the written word. It's a dictionary, but it is much more than that. It's important to note the subtitle of this book (A Treasury of Terms and Literary Quotations for Readers and Writers) because this subtitle gets to the heart of what makes this book so...
This is a completely new dictionary, containing about 5,000 quotations.This dictionary has been compiled from extensive evidence of the quotations that are actually used in this way. The dictionary includes the commonest quotations which were found in a collection of more than 200,000 citations assembled by combing books, magazines, and newspapers. For example, our collections...
Published: 1992 (original 1941)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Editor: Oxford University Press
Scope: All quotations, chosen based on familiarity.
Number of quotations: 17000
Number of pages: 1768
This is the other of the "Big Two" quotation books. Any fan of
quotations should have it available. Like all quotation books, it is
by no means comprehensive, but it attempts...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. — 608 p. The unmatched guide―and perfect gift―for stymied scribes and working wordsmiths everywhere, now expanded and updated. A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary―now expanded and updated―has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who are determined to capture the world in just the right...
Marion Street Press, LLC; 3rd edition, 2012. — 252 р. Whereas a witticism is a clever remark or phrase - indeed, the height of expression - a "dimwitticism" is the converse; it is a commonplace remark or phrase. Dimwitticisms are worn-out words and phrases; they are expressions that dull our reason and dim our insight, formulas that we rely on when we are too lazy to express...
George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1922. — 365 p. Dictionary of English Phrases: Phraseological Allusions, Catch Words, Stereotyped Modes of Speech and Metaphors, Nicknames, Sobriquets, Derivations. At the present day, when the contents of the average newspaper cover almost every conceivable subject, words and phrases are constantly recurring wliich the average man docs not understand....
C. A. Pearson, limited, 1913. — 207 p. At the present day, when the contents of the average newspaper cover almost every conceivable subject, words and phrases are constantly recurring wliich the average man docs not understand. As any attempt to hunt up the meaning of such phrases would entail a search through cumbersome encyclopaedias and dictionaries not always on the parlour...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 1164 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-20597-8. Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects...
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1905. — 1454 р. Originally published in 1870 by the Reverend E. Cobham Brewer, it was aimed at the growing number of people who did not have a university education, but wanted to understand the origins of phrases and historical or literary allusions. The 'phrase' part of the title refers mainly to the explanation of various idioms and...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 1164 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-20597-8. Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, science, politics, law, the social sciences, and all other aspects...
Penguin Reference Books, 2004. — 720 p. — ISBN: 0141011823. An updated reference anthology collects more than eight thousand witty, interesting, or notable quotations from 1914 through the present, offering some contextual information on both the occasion for the quote and the person who said it and featuring the latest "Bushisms" from America's forty-third president. Original.
Da Capo Press, 1977. — 428 p. — ISBN10: 0306801388, 13 978-0306801389. Collected here for the first time are more than 2,000 wise and witty quotations on every type of music and musicians, from Plato to Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, John Lennon, and a host of other luminaries. What they have to say about composers, concerts, critics, conducting, various...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 : 019881318X; ISBN-13: 978-0198813187. Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over 2,700 of the best quotations, from witty...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. — ISBN10: 0393312658; ISBN13: 978-0393312652 Have you ever found yourself grasping in vain for that ideal descriptive word lost somewhere within the misty recesses of your vocabulary? Or felt frustrated that an oddly shaped structure or pretty setting you wished to portray in writing didn't quite translate clearly to paper? If the answer...
New York: Essential Books, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1945. — 291 p. America has a rich history of creating unique sayings and phrases, here are collected some of the finest.
Chatto & Windus, 1911. — 631 p. At the present day, when the contents of the average newspaper cover almost every conceivable subject, words and phrases are constantly recurring wliich the average man docs not understand. As any attempt to hunt up the meaning of such phrases would entail a search through cumbersome encyclopaedias and dictionaries not always on the parlour...
London: T.W. Laurie, 1911. — 376 p. This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be anxhaustive philological treatise nor an academic...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 592 p. — ISBN-10 : 9780198614173; ISBN-13 : 978-0198614173. The most authoritative paperback dictionary of quotations available, containing over 9,000 quotations from more than 2,300 authors, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is both a fascinating read and an invaluable general reference tool. Based on the highly...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1767 p. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is as impressive, erudite, enjoyable, and educational a tome as you might expect from Oxford. It's the sort of undertaking the press does very well. The first such dictionary, as compiled by Oxford, was published in 1953, and it's been tweaking, modifying, and updating it ever since. This new edition,...
Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc., 2011. — 68 p. — eISBN 10 1440528314, 13 9781440528316. The Seven Deadly Sins have sliced up the dictionary and taken what's theirs. No one vice is too greedy as each volume prides itself on having more than 500 entries. Word lovers will lust after these richly packaged volumes-and once you've collected all seven, you'll be the envy of...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 : 019881318X; ISBN-13: 978-0198813187. Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over 2,700 of the best quotations, from witty...
London: T.W. Laurie, 1911. — 376 p. This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be anxhaustive philological treatise nor an academic...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1767 p. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is as impressive, erudite, enjoyable, and educational a tome as you might expect from Oxford. It's the sort of undertaking the press does very well. The first such dictionary, as compiled by Oxford, was published in 1953, and it's been tweaking, modifying, and updating it ever since. This new edition,...
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Сo, 1926. — 490 р. History's most famous words; when, where, why, and by whom were used great sayings that have passed into common speech
Adams Media, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 9781440528064, ASIN 1440528063. The Seven Deadly Sins have sliced up the dictionary and taken what's theirs. No one vice is too greedy as each volume prides itself on having more than 500 entries. Word lovers will lust after these richly packaged volumes--and once you've collected all seven, you'll be the envy of all your friends.Sloth: A...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 : 019881318X; ISBN-13: 978-0198813187. Become a dazzling wit or enjoy a good laugh with this entertaining collection of humorous quotations, carefully handpicked and edited by writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth. From Art to Bores, Tennis to Wine, this little dictionary contains over 2,700 of the best quotations, from witty...
London: T.W. Laurie, 1911. — 376 p. This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be anxhaustive philological treatise nor an academic...
London: T.W. Laurie, 1911. — 376 p. This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be anxhaustive philological treatise nor an academic...
London: T.W. Laurie, 1911. — 376 p. This book is put forward in the belief that a demand exists for a concise epitome of the origin and meaning of words and phrases which are in every-day use but which are often not appreciated at their full significance. Its size is sufficient to show that it is neither intended to be anxhaustive philological treatise nor an academic...
5th edition. — Oxford University Press, 2006. — 592 p. — ISBN-10 : 9780198614173; ISBN-13 : 978-0198614173. The most authoritative paperback dictionary of quotations available, containing over 9,000 quotations from more than 2,300 authors, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is both a fascinating read and an invaluable general reference tool. Based on the highly...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 1767 p. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is as impressive, erudite, enjoyable, and educational a tome as you might expect from Oxford. It's the sort of undertaking the press does very well. The first such dictionary, as compiled by Oxford, was published in 1953, and it's been tweaking, modifying, and updating it ever since. This new edition,...
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