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What's in a name?: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Millennium edition, revised by Adrian Room, 1999, Cassell (pp. xxiv + 1298). Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable, compiled by Adrian Room, 2000, Cassell (pp. xxiv + 773). The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by Elizabeth Knowles, 2000, Oxford (pp. viii + 1224)
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16 September 2002
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