Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable

From "American Express" to "American Psycho", the "Zapata moustache" to the "Zinoviev letter", take an up-to-date look at the diverse and entertaining linguistic landscape of our culture. Here, deftly defined and intriguingly displayed, are thousands of words, phrases, slogans, names, events, and titles of songs, books, films, and TV programs that resonate with English-speaking people everywhere. "Peerless...Brewer's has kept ahead of the game by compiling this marvelous compendium....It has captured the flavor of the past 100 years."—The Times