Oxford dictionary of modern quotations / edited by Elizabeth Knowles
- Bib ID:
- 4247985
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007
- xiii, 479 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780199208951
- 0199208956
- Summary:
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"We may encounter quotations at any point in the daily torrent of words with which we are likely to be faced: in books, newspapers, or journals, plays or films, on television, radio, or the Internet, or simply in conversation. Oxford's quotations dictionaries allow you both to identify the quotation you have just met, and to find the words which perfectly express that you want to say." "For over 65 years, Oxford has been collecting, sourcing, researching, and authenticating quotations on an international scale. In doing so, it has created the rich language resource from which the Oxford family of quotations dictionaries derives."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Introduction vii
- How to Use the Dictionary xi
- Dictionary 1
- SPECIAL CATEGORIES Advertising slogans 3 Borrowed titles 40 Cartoons 56 Catchphrases 58 Epitaphs 107 Film lines 113 Film titles 117 Last words 190 Military sayings and slogans 221 Misquotations 224 Newspaper headlines and leaders 237 Of.cial advice 242 Political sayings and slogans 257 Sayings and slogans 286 Taglines for .lms 309 Telegrams 311
- Keyword Index 351
- Thematic Index 473
- Administration 473 Age 473 America 473 Art 473 Britain 473 Business 473 Computing 474 Drinks 474 Education 474 Environment 474 Europe 474 Family 474 Fashion 474
- vi Contents
- Film 475 Fitness 475 Food 475 Future 475 Health 475 Language 475 Law 475 Literature 475 Love 476 Marriage 476 Men and Women 476 Money 476 Music 476 Past 477 Photography 477 Politics 477 Popular Culture 477 Present 477 Press 477 Quotations 477 Religion 478 Royalty 478 Science 478 Sex 478 Society 478 Sport 478 Success 479 Technology 479 Television 479 Transport 479 Travel 479 War 479 Youth 479.
- Notes:
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- Includes indexes.
- Previous ed.: 2002.
- Subject:
- Quotations, English -- Dictionaries
- Other authors/contributors:
- Knowles, Elizabeth
- Also Titled:
- Modern quotations
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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