The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation

Edited By Elizabeth Knowles

ISBN 10: 0198662297 / ISBN 13: 9780198662297

Published by Oxford University Press, Great Britain, 1997

About this Item

Hardcover. First Edition. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotations. Well-chosen words from across the centuries are brought together in a unique combination in this new and highly browsable companion to the much love Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Treasured quotations, proverbs and phrases, from Biblical times to the present day, are arranged under the widest possible range of themes, making this book the ideal place to look for an apt or pithy expression on a particular subject. 694 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying and Quotation
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Great Britain
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198662297
• ISBN 13: 9780198662297
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic Education Learning Business

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Synopsis

This dictionary, which is a companion volume to the "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", brings together over 10,000 quotations, proverbs, and phrases, in an easy to use browsable format. Over 350 diverse themes have been chosen, with the aim of covering as broad a range of topics as possible, for example, actors and acting, animals, bores and boredom, elections, food and drink, kissing, madness, the past, schools, science, taxes, virtue, the weather, and youth. A selection of chronologically arranged quotations appears under each theme, supported wherever possible by interrelated proverbs and phrases which throw further light on the topic. To clarify the terminology used, a quotation has broadly been defined as something traceable back to a single utterance at a given instance; proverbs are seen as embodying an essential truth, likely to have been coined by different people at different times; phrases are taken to be "a group of words (not a sentence) with a particular meaning". To aid understanding of the material, explanatory notes are given wherever this is felt to be useful, and cross-references take the reader to other relevant themes in the text. In addition to finding material under a particular theme, readers can also consult two different indexes, one organized by author and one by keyword.

About the Author

About the Editor:
Elizabeth Knowles is Managing Editor of the Quotation dictionaries group at Oxford University Press.