Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006Description: ix, 853 p. 24 cmISBN:- 304368091
- PN 43 .B758 2006
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Previous ed.: London: Cassell, 2000.
Features more than 8,000 contemporary words, idioms, catch phrases, slogans, names, nicknames, events, books, films and TV titles, as well as, linguistic and cultural resonance of thousands of contemporary words and phrases. Adds 1,000 new articles, covering topics as diverse as political nicknames, catch phrases and buzz words ( Bush's Poodle, Governator, Dodgy Dossier, Camp X-ray), characters from recent literature, film and television ( Ali G, Inspector Rebus, Buzz Lightyear, Harry Potter), those aspects fo today's world that one can't get away from ( pole dancing, Posh and Becks, eBay McMansions, chavs, makeoverTV, happy slapping), and examples of modern words and phrases (as cheap as chips, bootylicious, too posh to push, elephant in the corner). Includes entries offering lists of information from first lines of modern novels to advertising slogans.
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