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APR - - 2012 OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms SAN RAFAEL PUBLIC LIBRARY SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA : John Ayto is a freelance lexicographer, editor of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, and co-author with John Simpson of Stone the Crows: Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang (second edition, 2008).
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