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From credit crunch to golden parachute, barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these an

What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!) in the new

Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and

A compendium of catch-phrases, colloquialisms, format phrases, idioms, nicknames, sayings, slogans and stock phrases. It explains what they mean, details their

With more than 5000 entries, from Abandon hope all ye who enter here to Led Zeppelin, this book explores the origins and meanings of allusions, words, names and