Product Description
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's
Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world.
From the Back Cover
A
catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over a long period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this
Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
Some reviews of this classic edition:
`This delightful book will tell you the history of such phrases as "back to square one", "as the actress said to the bishop", "the bee's knees", "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed", and thousands of other catchphrases, British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day.' -
Richard Boston, The Guardian
