Subject: English language › Terms and phrases

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• Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget (3,482 copies)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (2,749 copies)
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams (1,518 copies)
• The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary… by J. A. Cuddon (1,144 copies)
• A handbook to literature by William Harmon (962 copies)
• An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton (895 copies)
• A Cache of Jewels (World of Language) by Ruth Heller (881 copies)
• Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms by Marvin Terban (824 copies)
• The Complete Plain Words by Sir Ernest Gowers (807 copies)
• A Chocolate Moose for Dinner by Fred Gwynne (715 copies)
• Descriptionary by Marc McCutcheon (656 copies)
• There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a… by Loreen Leedy (609 copies)
• Brush Up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone (532 copies)
• Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson (518 copies)
• A Glossary of Literary Terms by M. H. Abrams (508 copies)
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (500 copies)
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer (500 copies)
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English by Paul Procter (499 copies)
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (487 copies)
• Random House Word Menu: New and Essential Companion to the… by Stephen Glazier (486 copies)
• Critical Terms for Literary Study by Frank Lentricchia (426 copies)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford… by Chris Baldick (426 copies)
• Roget's Super Thesaurus by Marc McCutcheon (404 copies)
• Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack (401 copies)
• Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable… by Nancy Mitford (400 copies)
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (379 copies)
• A Hog on Ice by Charles E. Funk (367 copies)
• What's what, a visual glossary of the physical world by Reginald Bragonier (345 copies)
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman (335 copies)
• The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common… by John Ralston Saul (333 copies)
• 'Isms & 'Ologies: All the Movements, Ideologies… by Arthur Goldwag (300 copies)
• Say What? by Margaret Peterson Haddix (265 copies)
• Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms by Babette Deutsch (259 copies)
• The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Ellen Miller (240 copies)
• Dictionary of Word and Phrase Orgins by William Morris (231 copies)
• Oxford Dictionary of Euphemisms by R. W. Holder (227 copies)
• Flip Dictionary by Barbara Ann Kipfer (217 copies)
• Slang and Euphemism, 3rd revised ed. by Richard A. Spears (204 copies)
• Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson (196 copies)
• Sisson's Word and Expression Locator by A. F. Sisson (195 copies)
• Critical Terms for Art History by Robert S. Nelson (181 copies)
• In a Pickle: And Other Funny Idioms by Marvin Terban (179 copies)
• The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the… by William F. Buckley Jr. (179 copies)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Phrase and Fable by E.Cobham Brewer (172 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Allusions by Andrew Delahunty (171 copies)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation by Elizabeth Knowles (164 copies)
• Common Phrases: And Where They Come From by Myron Korach (163 copies)
• Literary Terms: A Dictionary by Karl Beckson (160 copies)
• A dictionary of catch phrases, American and British, from… by Eric Partridge (137 copies)
• An Introduction to Functional Grammar by M. A. K. Halliday (127 copies)

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