Subject: English language › Terms and phrases

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• Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget (2,476 copies)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1,223 copies)
• A Glossary of Literary Terms by M. H. Abrams (843 copies)
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams (811 copies)
• A Handbook to Literature by C. Hugh Holman (611 copies)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary… by J. A. Cuddon (548 copies)
• An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Venereal Game by James Lipton (421 copies)
• The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gowers (355 copies)
• Descriptionary: A Thematic Dictionary; 2nd Edition by Marc McCutcheon (323 copies)
• Random House Webster's Word Menu by Stephen Glazier (281 copies)
• Brush Up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone (275 copies)
• Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson (267 copies)
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer (254 copies)
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (248 copies)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford… by Chris Baldick (232 copies)
• A Cache of Jewels by Ruth Heller (230 copies)
• Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia (228 copies)
• Roget's Super Thesaurus by Marc McCutcheon (209 copies)
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins… by Robert Hendrickson (201 copies)
• Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms by Marvin Terban (187 copies)
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk (185 copies)
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by Longman (182 copies)
• Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable… by Nancy Mitford (180 copies)
• The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common… by John Ralston Saul (173 copies)
• A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne (172 copies)
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman (165 copies)
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (164 copies)
• There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little… by Loreen Leedy (160 copies)
• Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack (154 copies)
• What's what, a visual glossary of the physical world by Reginald Bragonier (142 copies)
• Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms by Babette Deutsch (121 copies)
• 'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies and… by Arthur Goldwag (115 copies)
• Flip Dictionary by Barbara Ann Kipfer (115 copies)
• Slang and Euphemism (Signet Reference) by Richard A. Spears (114 copies)
• Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson (103 copies)
• Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William Morris (99 copies)
• How Not To Say What You Mean: A Dictionary of Euphemisms by R. W. Holder (99 copies)
• Sisson's Word and Expression Locator by A. F. Sisson (99 copies)
• Literary Terms: A Dictionary by Karl Beckson (85 copies)
• An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of… by Mary Miller (79 copies)
• Say What? by Margaret Peterson Haddix (72 copies)
• Critical Terms for Art History by Robert S. Nelson (69 copies)
• The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the… by William F. Buckley, Jr. (68 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty (62 copies)
• An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M. A. K. Halliday (55 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation by Elizabeth M. Knowles (55 copies)
• Bloom's Bouquet of Imaginary Words by Jeffrey Bloom (55 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Elizabeth M. Knowles (54 copies)
• Where Queen Elizabeth Slept and What the Butler Saw: A… by David N. Durant (52 copies)
• A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from… by Eric Partridge (52 copies)

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