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Idiom's delight : fascinating phrases and linguistic eccentricities

Title
Idiom's delight : fascinating phrases and linguistic eccentricities / Suzanne Brock ; illustrations by Laura Lou Levy.
Author
Brock, Suzanne.
Publication
New York : Times Books, [1988], ©1988.

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Joseph Brodsky Collection (Columbia University) NNC
Description
158 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Dictionaries.
Contents
In pursuit of idioms -- Fair-wind friends and gilded fish and other Spanish pleasures -- Spanish idioms -- Black beasts and lion's teeth and other French traditions -- French idioms -- White nights and Persian blinds and other Italian inventions -- Italian idioms -- Furor in a sepia atrium and other Latin images -- Latin idioms.
ISBN
  • 0812917227
  • 9780812917222
LCCN
88040154
OCLC
  • ocm17877466
  • 17877466
  • SCSB-5781126
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries