A hog on ice and other curious expressions (Harper colophon books)

Red herrings and white elephants : the origins of the phrases we use everyday

In a pickle, and other funny idioms

Common phrases : and the amazing stories behind them

Horsefeathers and other curious words

Scholastic dictionary of idioms

An ambush of tigers : a wild gathering of collective nouns

You're pulling my leg! : 400 human-body sayings from head to toe

Who put the butter in butterfly?

In a word : 750 words and their fascinating stories and origins

The story of English in 100 words

The new American dictionary of baby names

Dictionary of word origins

Ballyhoo, buckaroo, and spuds : ingenious tales of words and their origins

Remarkable words with astonishing origins

Words to eat by : five foods and the culinary history of the English language

A chartreuse leotard in a magenta limousine : and other words named after people and places

A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory

Where words come from

Abracadabra to zombie : more than 300 wacky word origins

Conversational American English : the illustrated guide to the everyday expressions of American English

The secret lives of words

A dictionary of Latin words and phrases

Talk about English : how words travel and change

Slangalicious : where we got that crazy lingo

Turkish-English, English-Turkish dictionary & phrasebook

Crazy English : the ultimate joy ride through our language

Latin for the illiterati : exorcizing the ghosts of a dead language

English language, life & culture

Cliches : over 1500 phrases explored and explained

The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

The Jonathan David dictionary of first names

The history of the English language

You've got ketchup on your muumuu :an A-to-Z guide to English words from around the world

Mushy! : the complete book of Valentine words

As : a surfeit of similes

Wretched writing : a compendium of crimes against the English language

Everyday Indonesian : a basic introduction to the Indonesian language & culture

A zeal of zebras : an alphabet of collective nouns

A zeal of zebras an alphabet of collective nouns

Words and phrases of early America