terms and phrases

A family travels to Mexico where they spend time at the beach, go to a festival, and visit pyramids. They shop at the market and hike to the winter home of monarch butterflies.

Defines 501 expressions and offers an example of each from today's newspapers, magazines, books, and sometimes comics.

Words arranged in 800 divisions and 75,000 entries provide definitions, terminology of an unfamiliar field, and different ways of saying the same thing.

A series of brief essays defining and illustrating literary terms in alphabetical sequence.

A thesaurus that alphabetizes and presents synonyms for phrases such as "middle ground" or "come to grips with," providing help for crossword puzzlers, students, journalists, and other writers who find themselves searching for that elusive wording. Contains more than ten thousand entries and synonyms.

Alphabetically arranged entries trace the origins of hundreds of unusual words and expressions.

Defines over 2,000 literary terms and theories, arranged alphabetically from Abbey Theatre to zeugma, and focusing on twelve areas which include technical terms, genres or kinds, well-known phrases, personalities, and concepts.

Defines over one thousand terms in the study of literature in the areas of traditional drama, rhetoric, and literary schools, theory, and history, with pronunciation guides for some words, entries in languages other than English, and cross-references.

A collection of French-language proverbs, grouped by topic, each with a humorous illustration, a literal meaning, and an equivalent saying in English.