Overview

"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."

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Author:   Elizabeth Knowles
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   1.249kg
ISBN:  

9780198662297

ISBN 10:   0198662297
Pages:   711
Publication Date:   01 December 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Indexes (arranged by keyword and by author)

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

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