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Product Description: This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly. It looks at archism, echoism, obscurity and tautology, and should be useful as reference book.

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9781853263460 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly.

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Explains the origins and meanings of popular phrases
By Paul Beale (editor) and Eric Partridge

Hardcover:

9780812831016 | Rev sub edition (Stein & Day Pub, October 1, 1986), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explains the origins and meanings of many phrases popularly used in the British Commonwealth and the United States, including quotations for many entries

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9780812885361, titled "A Dictionary of Catch Phrases: American and British, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day" | Rev upd su edition (Scarborough House, April 1, 1992), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Explains the origins and meanings of popular phrases

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Product Description: An abbreviated edition of the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on modern slang. Ideal for family and student use.

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9780880291071 | Dorset Pr, March 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An abbreviated edition of the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, with the emphasis on modern slang.
9780710019387 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1968, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: The Standard reference work on slang, completely revised and updated with over 100,000 entries

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9780025949805 | 8 sub edition (Macmillan General Reference, March 1, 1985), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Standard reference work on slang, completely revised and updated with over 100,000 entries

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Revised and updated to include some 500 new entries, this 'Dictionary' gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and aims to entertain and inform all language-lovers.

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9780415065689 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 24, 1984), cover price $236.00 | About this edition: Revised and updated to include some 500 new entries, this 'Dictionary' gives a full account of slang and unconventional English over four centuries and aims to entertain and inform all language-lovers.

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Product Description: Bound in the publisher's original burgundy quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and extremities of dust jacket. Contributions from Anthony Burgess, Ralph Elliott, Winston Graham, and Randolph Quirk.

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9780025289604 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1981, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Bound in the publisher's original burgundy quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt.

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Product Description: This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics. It makes a formidable list, amplified as it is with definitions, sources, and indications of the clichés, venerability in every case...read more

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9780415065559 | Routledge, June 1, 1979, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: This work is full of things better left unsaid: hackneyed phrases, idioms battered into senselessness, infuriating Gallicisms, once-familiar quotations and tags from the ancient classics.

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This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary. Words are grouped together and their connections explained. The book also includes lists of prefixes and suffixes.

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9780517414255 | Reissue edition (Outlet, February 1, 1984), cover price $12.99 | also contains The Sony A7 II: The Unofficial Quintessential Guide
9780415050777 | 1 edition (Routledge, September 5, 1977), cover price $205.00 | About this edition: This dictionary gives the origins of some 20,000 items from the modern English vocabulary.

Miscellaneous:

9780203421147 | Routledge, September 5, 1977, cover price $80.00

Hardcover:

9780836911879 | Reprint edition (Books for Libraries, June 1, 1977), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly. It looks at archism, echoism, obscurity and tautology, and should be useful as reference book.

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9780837124667 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1969, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: This work examines the best and worst uses of English in order to help speakers, writers and thinkers express themselves more clearly.

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Product Description: Book by Partridge, Eric

Hardcover:

9780837101897 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1968, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Book by Partridge, Eric

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Product Description: The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature (1820-1848) According to Contemporary French Memoirs Letters and Periodicals.

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9780833726766, titled "French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature: 1820-1848" | Reprint edition (Burt Franklin, June 1, 1968), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The French Romantics' Knowledge of English Literature (1820-1848) According to Contemporary French Memoirs Letters and Periodicals.

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9780806529967 | Philosophical Library, January 31, 1955, cover price $18.00

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9780836953541 | 4th edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1954), cover price $31.95

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Product Description: Book by Partridge, Eric, Granville, Wilfred, Roberts, Francis Gerard

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9780836953527 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1948, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Partridge, Eric, Granville, Wilfred, Roberts, Francis Gerard

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