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15,000 useful phrases


Kleiser, Grenville, 1868-1953.
Luton : Andrews UK Limited, 2010. 2010

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An argument of images : the poetry of Alexander Pope


Spacks, Patricia Meyer.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1971. 1971

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At the eleventh hour : and other expressions about money and numbers


Heos, Bridget.
Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications Company, [2013] 2013

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Because I don't have wings : stories of Mexican immigrant life


Garrison, Philip.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2006. 2006

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The bizarre origins of kangaroo court and other idioms


Ringstad, Arnold.
Mankato, MN : Child's World, ©2013. 2012

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The broken compass; a study of the major comedies of Ben Jonson.


Partridge, Edward B. (Edward Bellamy), 1916-2002.
New York : Columbia University Press, 1958. 1958

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Browning's star-imagery.


Smith, C. Willard (Charles Willard), 1899-1979.
New York : Octagon Books, 1965. 1965

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The compelling histories of long arm of the law and other idioms


Ringstad, Arnold.
Mankato, MN : Child's World, [2013] 2013

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The development of Shakespeare's imagery


Clemen, Wolfgang.
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1951. 1951

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A dictionary of American idioms


Makkai, Adam, author.
Hauppage, NY : Barron's Educational Series, Inc., [1995] 1995

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The dictionary of cliches


Rogers, James T.
New York, N.Y. : Barnes & Noble Books, [2001] 2001

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The early bird catches the worm!


Amoroso, Cynthia, author.
[Mankato, Minnesota] : Wonder Books, an imprint of The Child's World, [2023] 2023

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Earthly delights, unearthly adornments : American writers as image-makers


Morris, Wright, 1910-1998.
New York : Harper & Row, [1978] 1978

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Elizabethan and metaphysical imagery; renaissance poetic and twentieth-century critics


Tuve, Rosemond, 1903-1964.
Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago press [1947] 1947

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English idioms and expressions explained for foreigners, like me! : I thought I new English, but I


Mashayekhi, Reza, 1946-
San Diego, CA : East To West Publications, 2010. 2010

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Even more parts : idioms from head to toe


Arnold, Tedd.
New York : Scholastic Inc., 2005. 2005

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Figure : concept and method



Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 2022

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Figures of speech : 60 ways to turn a phrase


Quinn, Arthur.
Salt Lake City : G.M. Smith, 1982. 1982

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Food words : essays in culinary culture


Jackson, Peter, 1955-
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 2015

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Form and image in the fiction of Henry Miller


Nelson, Jane A, author
Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1970. 1970

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Get your nose out of joint : and other medical expressions


Doeden, Matt.
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2013] 2013

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Go fly a kite! (and other sayings we don't really mean)


Amoroso, Cynthia.
Mankato, Minn. : Child's World, [2008] 2008

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The imagery of Emily Dickinson.


McNaughton, Ruth Flanders.
Lincoln : The University, 1949. 1949

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The intriguing sources of hold your horses and other idioms


Ringstad, Arnold.
Mankato, MN : Child's World, [2013] 2013

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It figures! : fun figures of speech


Terban, Marvin.
New York : Clarion Books, [1993] 1993

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Joseph Conrad; the imaged style


Dowden, Wilfred S. (Wilfred Sellars), 1917-
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1970. 1970

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Let's talk turkey : the stories behind America's favorite expressions


Ostler, Rosemarie.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008. 2008

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May I quote you on that? : a guide to grammar and usage


Spector, Stephen, 1946- author.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015] 2015

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McGraw-Hill's conversational American English : the illustrated guide to the everyday expressions of


Spears, Richard A.
New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011] 2011

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Mighty fine words and smashing expressions : making sense of transatlantic English


Hargraves, Orin.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 2003

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The moon is a silver pond


Cassidy, Sara, author.
Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2019. 2019

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Muddy as a duck puddle and other American similes


Lawlor, Laurie.
New York : Holiday House, [2010] 2010

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My momma likes to say


Brennan-Nelson, Denise.
Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, 2003. 2003

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My Monster Moofy


Watson, Annie, author.
Thomaston, Maine : Tilbury House Publishers, [2021] 2021

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My teacher likes to say


Brennan-Nelson, Denise.
Chelsea, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2004] 2004

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Nantucket sleigh-ride : a notebook of nautical expressions


Lodi, Edward.
Middleborough, MA : Rock Village Pub., [2005] 2005

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NTC's dictionary of everyday American English expressions : presented according to topic and situati


Spears, Richard A.
Lincolnwood, Ill. : NTC Pub. Group, 1995. 1995

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The over-the-top histories of chew the scenery and other idioms


Ringstad, Arnold.
Mankato, MN : Child's World, 2012. 2012

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The peculiar stories behind raining cats and dogs and other idioms


Ringstad, Arnold.
Mankato, MN : Child's World, [2013] 2013

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Picturesque expressions : a thematic dictionary



Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., [1980] 1980

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Put on your thinking cap : and other expressions about school


Doeden, Matt.
Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2013] 2013

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Raining cats & dogs


Moses, Will.
New York : Philomel Books, 2008. 2008

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The rhetorical world of Augustan humanism; ethics and imagery from Swift to Burke.


Fussell, Paul, 1924-2012.
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1965. 1965

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Settler sayings


Kalman, Bobbie.
New York : Crabtree Pub., [1994] 1994

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Shakespeare's imagery : and what it tells us


Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor), 1869-1942.
Cambridge, [Eng.] : The University Press, 1935. 1935

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Shakespeare's imagery : and what it tells us


Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor), 1869-1942.
Cambridge [Eng.] : Univ. Press [1977] 1977

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Shakespeare's imagery, and what it tells us.


Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor), 1869-1942.
The University press, 1965. 1965

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