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NTC's dictionary of British slang and colloquial expressions
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A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature
There's a frog in my throat!
Emily Dickinson's imagery
McGraw-Hill's American idioms dictionary
The conceit
Metaphors dictionary
The dictionary of cliches
Idiomaticity in the basic writing of American English
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Monkey business
Mythic worlds, modern words
Figures of Speech
Medieval Christian literary imagery
Figures of speech
GO FIGURE (Ghostwriter)
A course of lectures on oratory and criticism, 1777
Knickers in a Twist
Diana
Linguistic perspectives on literature
Common American phrases in everyday contexts
Among the Prophets
Shakespeare's imagery and what it tells us
Milton's Biblical and classical imagery
This great stage
Oxymoronica
Go Fly a Kite!
Art is a way of knowing
NTC's American idioms dictionary
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