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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases

OTHER WORKS BY ERIC PARTRIDGE

Routledge

ORIGINS An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English Fourth Edition ISBN: 0 4150 5077 4

A DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH Eighth Edition Completely revised, ed. Paul Beale

ISBN: 0 7100 9820 0

A DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL SLANG that is, up to 1914, ed. Jacqueline Simpson ISBN: 0 7100 7761 0

*A SMALLER SLANG DICTIONARY Second Edition ISBN: 0 7100 8331 9

* SHAKESPEARE’S BAWDY Third Edition ISBN: 0 4150 5076 6

*A DICTIONARY OF CLICHÉS Fifth Edition ISBN: 0 7100 0049 9

* Available in paperback only

ERIC PARTRIDGE

A Dictionary of Catch Phrases

British and American, from the Sixteenth Century to the Present

Day

Edited by Paul Beale

London and New York

1st edition 1977

2nd edition first published in 1985

and first published as a paperback in 1986

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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Preface to the 2nd edition and other new material;

selection of entries © Paul Beale 1985

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Partridge, Eric

A dictionary of catch phrases: British and

American from the sixteenth century to the

present day. —2nd ed.

1. English language—Terms and phrases

I. Title II. Beale, Paul

423′.1 PE1689

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