by Adrian Room · Cassell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780304350964
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is a classic reference work offering information on thousands of phrases and expressions not covered in conventional dictionaries. It includes entries on people and events from mythology, the Bible, literature, and history. In total, there are 18,500 main entries and thousands of sub-entries, and this edition contains 700 new entries, including contemporary phrases and expressions, and historical and fictional characters. Enhanced coverage of present-day idiomatic expressions is also provided.
Adrian Richard West Room was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of words and place-names.
