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Idioms and phrases index /

Title
Idioms and phrases index / Laurence Urdang, editor in chief, Frank R. Abate, managing editor ; foreword by Richard W. Bailey.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Abate, Frank R.
  • Urdang, Laurence.
Description
3 v.; 29 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • "An unrivaled collection of idioms, phrases, expressions, and collocutions of two or more words which are part of the English lexicon and for which the meaning of the whole is not transparent from the sum of the meanings of the constituent parts, also including nominal, verbal, and other phrases which exhibit syntactic and semantic character peculiar to the English language, the entries gathered from more than thirty sources, each described in the bibliography provided, with all items arranged alphabetically both by first word and any significant words."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
v. 1. A-G -- v. 2. H-P -- v. 3. Q-Z.
ISBN
0810315475
LCCN
83017192
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library