Idioms and phrases index
By: Laurence Urdang, editor in chief ; foreword by Richard W. Bailey.
Contributors: Urdang, Laurence.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Gale Research Co.
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1691
Subjects: English language -- Terms and phrases; English language -- Idioms -- Dictionaries
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"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."