(Hardback)

A masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it illuminates the similarities between them, accomplishing in a word or phrase what could otherwise be expressed only in many words, if at all. This title offers a collection of 6,500 colorful contemporary comparative phrases.

(Hardback)

"16,000 figures of speech on more than one thousand topics"--Cover.