Christine Ammer

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Christine Ammer


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Christine Ammer is the author of more than three dozen reference books, on subjects ranging from classical music to women's health. Her books on words and phrases include Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés; Seeing Red or Tickled Pink; Fighting Words from War, Rebellion, and Other Combative Capers; Southpaws and Sunday Punches; Cool Cats and Top Dogs; and Fruitcakes and Couch Potatoes. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. ...more

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The American Heritage Dicti...

4.10 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1997 — 19 editions
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The Dictionary of Clichés: ...

3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions
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The A to Z of Foreign Music...

4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
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Unsung: A History of Women ...

4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs ...

3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions
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The New A To Z Of Women's H...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1920 — 13 editions
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Harpercollins Dictionary of...

3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions
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Fighting Words: From War, R...

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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Seeing Red or Tickled Pink:...

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Fruitcakes and Couch Potato...

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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“An idiom is a set phrase of two or more words that means something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.”
Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary Of Idioms



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