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Eric Partridge

Stand Alone

A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day
You Have a Point There
A dictionary of cliche s: with an introductory essay
A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms, and such Americanisms as have been naturalised
Shorter Dictionary Of Catch Phrases
Shorter Slang Dictionary
You Have a Point There
Routledge Dictionary Of Historical Slang
The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English
Shakespeare's Bawdy