Catch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms: A Dictionary of Familiar Expressions

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Catch phrases such as
shop till you drop,
cliches like
life begins at forty
and idioms such as
talk the hind leg off a donkey
have long enriched the English language in both spoken and written form. Here is a collection of over 20,000 familiar expressions. To the casual reader or the general browser, this book will inform and entertain. To writers it is a treasure trove of idea-starters that will make for more imaginative creative writing. Each phrase is cross-referenced by key word. Thus
raining cats and dogs,
for example, appears under
cat,

dog
and
rain.
In most cases, various forms of the word are listed under the root word. So under
run
you will find not only sayings that include the word
run,
but those that include
running,

runneth,

runner
and
run-around.