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From credit crunch to golden parachute, barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these an

A compendium of catch-phrases, colloquialisms, format phrases, idioms, nicknames, sayings, slogans and stock phrases. It explains what they mean, details their

What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!) in the new

This major new edition contains entries for over 6,000 idioms, including 700 entirely new entries, based on Oxford's language monitoring and the ongoing third e

Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and

Redensarten und Vergleiche sind im Englischen sehr verbreitet, sie zu beherrschen ist für die Lernenden einer Fremdsprache wichtig. In dieser Sammlung werden Ã

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investig

"This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, cultu

Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in the