Similes dictionary
By: Elyse Sommer, editorial director, Mike Sommer, editor.
Contributors: Sommer, Elyse.; Sommer, Mike.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gale
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 950
Subjects: Quotations, English; Simile -- Dictionaries
Notes: Bibliography: p. 777-830.
"A collection of more than 16,000 comparison phrases from ancient times to the present, compiled from books, folklore, magazines, newspapers, plays, politics, stage, screen, and television and arranged under more than 500 thematic categories."
Includes index.