suharsh

Looking for some recos on books on Idioms and Phrases. The book should have a comprehensive coverage of the same if not exhaustive. Also would love if the book discussed the origin of the idiom/phrase.

Thanks in advance.

Suharsh

benedict

You may care to check out the online resource WordNet

For my own use, I just have a large-ish collection of "real" dictionaries both general and specialised - plus a variety of reference books - that I have picked up over time: they seem to do the job!

Offline & online (the OED requires a subscription so is not hyperlinked) the following three titles are usually recommended:

• The unabridged Oxford English Dictionary
• Brewers Book of Phrase & Fable
• Roget's Thesaurus

More online searches via:

• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=P
• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=I

You may find the following sites found among my bookmarks/favourites to be of some use!

• http://www.refdesk.com/factdict.html
• http://www.yourdictionary.com/diction5.html
• http://www.brown.edu/Student_Service...r/dictiona.htm

BoatDrinks

Here's Amazon's results of a search...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...860662-7804959

benedict - on the tumbleweed!