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Idioms and phrases index

Title
Idioms and phrases index / Laurence Urdang, editor in chief ; foreword by Richard W. Bailey.
Publication
Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., ©1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Urdang, Laurence
  • Bailey, Richard W.
Description
3 volumes (xix, 1691 pages); 29 cm
Subject
  • English language > Terms and phrases
  • English language > Idioms > Dictionaries
  • English language
  • English language > Idioms
  • Idioom
  • Engels
Genre/Form
  • dictionaries.
  • Dictionaries
  • Dictionaries.
  • Dictionnaires.
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
  • 9780810315471
LCCN
83017192
OCLC
  • ocm09828443
  • 9828443
  • SCSB-87469
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library